Agreed—I’m also an alum. I suspect they’re getting the traditional “don’t admit anything” legal advice that so many scared lawyers offer their clients when they have nothing better to instruct. BU has screwed itself because of its terrible PR stiffarm approach; it has allowed the media to speculate about what the…

Be careful about protesting too much about a lack of transparency. Reporters don’t have the best record of giving up their sources, either. There are policy reasons why things are sometimes withheld from the public, and we are expected to accept the bad with the good. You’re asking your readers to accept your side of…