<p>1- natural, yes; we humans have a tendency to generalize from anecdotal information; I’d argue that’s a tendency to guard against because we can be seduced so easily into drawing larger conclusions based on a what are usually random events </p>
<p>2- yes, regressive incidents can occur in progressive places; obverse is true, too: one can find kindness in the gulag . . . doesn’t make the gulag a nice place</p>
<p>3- I get your point: it’s important for the adminstration to respond as caretakers of the Oberlin culture; nonetheless I expect more from students than I do from the administration - especially at Oberlin, because the students there seem to “own” the school and culture more than colleges with more passive students; examples for me include the co-ops and exco; in both those examples it’s the students taking responsibility for how the eating and living co-ops function, thrive, or suffer and for teaching classes.</p>
<p>What are you finding the students’ own responses to this incident to be?</p>