@HydeSnark - you are using student opinion to gauge wrongdoing? Good luck with that. Memes are cute though. 
No one “lied”. The funding seemed to become available after the ex advisor-turned-leaker told his/her advisees that funding had run out. Whether he/she was mistaken, not kept in the loop, not doing his/her job . . . is unknown.
As the university pointed out, outreach happens all the time. How is this little dustup somehow different or particularly enlightening? All it did was to bring everyone into some of the office politics of Career Advancement. Big whoop. IMHO, just another reason to avoid them when possible - they don’t give particularly good resume or cover letter advice, among other shortcomings.
You and @DunBoyer can do better than remain lock-step with the Maroon’s “reporting” (or rely on memes as evidence of formidable, well-thought-out moral commentary). Think about it - on several occasions, you two have been able to instruct some of us UChicago cheerleader parents and even compelled us to step out of our weirdly reactionary online world for a bit. Is this really one of those occasions?