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Leaders of powerful institutions do have a choice. The price of allowing the preferences of any president to dictate the policies and practices of organizations that depend on freedom and autonomy is to destroy the legitimacy of those organizations.

The president of Wesleyan University explains why he’s allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to pitch tents on campus.

Residential Life students, who recently formed the Wesleyan Union of Student Employees, held its first rally Saturday at North College, where the Office of Residential Life and some administrators’ offices are located.