Kirchick explains it all: It is clear, and should be especially clear to those working at 202 York, what motivated these protests. A die-hard group of union activists, no doubt encouraged and actively supported by paid union officers, is doing everything it can to tarnish the reputation of President Levin for their own cheap political purposes. The intent of these protests could not be any clearer, and there is nothing to be "confused" about. See here I thought I got a call on ten minutes notice that Levin had a press conference about his appointment to the Weapons of Mass Destruction Comission in Woodbridge, and a bunch of us who were less than enthused about the prospect of our President, given his ties to Bush and lack of relevant experience, getting and accepting the nod figured we'd get together outside Woodbridge and make it clear that not everyone in the Yale community was psyched about our university's latest appearance on the national news. But apparently, it's clear that that's not the case. Rather, it was all part of HERE President John Wilhelm's duplicitous thirty-year machinations to seize the crown of the AFL-CIO by running his alma mater into the ground (the same machinations which required that thousands of Yale workers strike this fall after years of negotiation - the poor souls only think that their pensions are set to double as a result), the latest step of which demanded that twenty-some lemmings be dispatched to appear to have legitimate concerns about Levin's appointment - all the better to serve the purposes of those dastardly paid union organizers... To review: Arguing that our University's President plays an unfortunate role in a network of political and economic elites in this country = Marxist conspiracy-theorizing. Intimating that any student on this campus who opposes any University policy is a union thug (how could they really disapprove - it's Yale) = Vision. Hey, we can't all be as grassroots as Jamie's approved activist group...