Not sure I understand what you mean. The CSCs still control the university through the reserve powers held by the Fellows on the board of trustees, all of whom are Holy Cross priests.
Th problem seems to be that nobody out of that (by the way self-selecting, self-perpetuating) group seems to have --- or admits having --- decisive executive power. Not the UND President, not the CSC Superior, neither here or in Rome.
The buck does't stop anywhere: it just goes around and around and around.
It seemed to me a slippery, evasive, and insular form of leadership, and I wish I had a better grasp on how it all works and where to put the leverage.
Even "Let's withhold donations" seems unlikely to work, since anyone of a conservative Catholic sympathy has long since stopped giving to Notre Dame. After so many donors ditched them during the shameful Obama episode, who's left to exert any pressure?
I'm baffled, frustrated. What's your advice?