It could be in the policy, but I do believe that public law (including one’s basic civil liberties) trumps private contracts. This clearly “impinges” (as lawyers like to say) on someone’s civil rights (the students’) and on the public’s right to know about its government and its functioning.
But let's go ahead and address that elephant in the closet that you're ignoring - you don't honestly believe that the Whichard Comm was going to come up with anything meaningful in the way of a report, do you?
It could be in the policy, but I do believe that public law (including ones basic civil liberties) trumps private contracts. This clearly impinges (as lawyers like to say) on someones civil rights (the students) and on the publics right to know about its government and its functioning.