Annapolis alum 2014. I agree that the college has a real interest in making a public statement regarding the dismissal of any tutor for any reason, especially in a case such as this, where that tutor may be able to misrepresent their association with the college in the future.The particular details of this situation require even more urgent action on behalf of the college, for the obvious reason that without direct clarification from those who made the decision to either grant extended leave or dismiss a longstanding faculty member, speculation cedes the bulk of the discussion to those who are solely concerned with persuing "culture war" conversations--whether those conversations serve to obfuscate the complicity of the administration or simply to promote trendy, reactionary political preferences, the college should find either motive not just unseemly but an unacceptable position to fall into.

St John's was a very important, formative place to me. I became familiar with its self-insistence as a bastion of deeply held, idiosyncratically conservative beliefs. I truly hope that the institution can survive in its mission as a place for real discussion and engagement, but that will not possible without real self-examination and change. The college will die if it refuses to engage seriously with its students--not just going through Title IX processes, but preventing silence (and bad faith) around assualt. Taking real responibility here--not just administering an endowment, but developing student-led programs to help govern the school, in outreach, in reporting, in hiring and faculty evaluation--would be a good sign that the management class at St John's takes its polis as seriously as it claims it does in its marketing. They have done a pretty terrible job up to now. Godbless.