It appears the cost of affirmative action is 22 million in this case. Maybe the full 33 million. But this dumb AA hire has the shovel out. Someone might want to take it away. Only if millions of dollars are worth the illusion of AA and the views of the good college.
Here’s the thing...this sets up a trigger. Anyone from the college that insults or threatens another business? They will procure a lawyer and go down the same path. Oberlin can easily survive this episode, but if you have five or six of these play out over the next five years, it’d be a problem to survive.
If this were my college, I’d start a behavior modification requirement for students and professors....in respecting local property and business.