Steve, thanks, that’s why I took great care in my post to be an agnostic about the facts in that case and to stress the need for an impartial postmortem and public disclosure. At the same time, I personally find the evidence for gaming/concealing on a national scale to be so widespread as to be beyond a reasonable doubt as a general matter. (Did you read the recent revelations about how the University of Florida official cast his ballots?) Again, I agree that the DePaul case isn’t clear from reading the competing accounts.

sounds about right to me. Isn’t that essentially the whole point of American society? Good on Illinois for teaching its students something practical that they’ll be able to use for the rest of their professional lives.