Another Brandeis grad here who attended in the years just after the 1969 Ford Hall occupation and for whom this is all very tiresome deja vu. I had to laugh at the President’s statement that the administration had “deep, productive, and thoughtful discussions” with the occupying students, when all of the students’ written materials are rife with meaningless jargon and psychobabble. I suspect I could have deeper, more meaningful discussions with my cat. I can guarantee from my own experiences at Brandeis that this whole kerfluffle is being directed by a handful of students with gigantic egos (but not with academic records of equivalent magnitude) and that most of the student body is completely indifferent to all of it But the administration is affording this bunch ridiculous concessions notwithstanding the fact that it refuses to offer explanation/examples of its grievances, because you know, it’s violence against people of color to ask questions–or something–who can possibly make sense of this stuff?