In this staff editorial, the Editorial Board of the YDN returns to an old pasttime: chastising students who vocally protest University policy for failing to understand the complexity of the world around them and failing to show the deference deserved by their superiors. Particularly absurd is this line: there seems to be a general misunderstanding of Levin's politics on campus. If all you know about Levin is that he is an economist and that he -- appropriately, given his position as president of Yale -- stood up for the University's interests in last year's strikes, it might be easy to assume he's a steadfast conservative. But Levin is more liberal than he is conservative, and we're not sure why campus liberals would oppose the selection of a fellow liberal to a committee to investigate gaps in U.S. military intelligence. Yeah, it was nice to read this summer that Levin didn't like Reagan's tax cuts either. More important, however is his exercise of power as President of the second wealthiest University in the world - one which is too often unfortunately illiberal, be the issue living wages for employees, meaningful investment in the surrounding city, investment transparency, environmental stewardship, democratic governance, protection of free expression, crimminal justice, or support for the military-industrial complex. It's that record that's made Levin his friends in high places, and it's that record against which he should be judged. Few of those protesting on Friday, incidentally, would accept the title "liberal"...