Part of the job of a university president, and of the staff under him, is to protect the school (and in the case the taxpayers) from devastating financial liability. Our screwed up legal system is responsible for both the fact that a patently insane young man was permitted to stay on campus pretending to be a student for years until he snapped, and for the fact that it would be professionally irresponsible for any member of the university’s administration to admit to having made any mistakes that could have contributed to the carnage, no matter how much they might like say what mistakes they made and how sorry they are for having made them.
A sad state of affairs, I say.