DON VINCENZO writes:

If anyone thought that the travails of Paul Tudor Jones, the 1976 University of Virginia graduate and wealthy hedge-fund entrepreneur who recently proffered a rational and natural explanation why childbearing affects the “focus” and subsequent success of women in finance, were a thing of the past, he should think again, for as if on cue, the administration of the University of Virginia administration has further backtracked in pleading “mea culpa,” and now, in a movement demonstrating their commitment to feminist solidarity, has unleashed “the long knives” within the university founded by Thomas Jefferson.

In response to the petition of 80 faculty members who claimed that Jones’s remarks during a Q&A session at the university’s Business School, to which Jones had donated 12 million dollars, were “false and injurious,” University Provost John D. Simon and President Teresa A. Sullivan, notified their emotionally distraught faculty members, “His (Jones’s) comment were of his own volition, he was not speaking on behalf of U.Va. and he has issued a public apology, according to The Washington Post. As administrators, we are often called upon to condemn opinions different from our own….” One female professor responded to those comments by positing: “This is a pretty extreme example of university officials being afraid to speak out because they don’t want to upset a major donor.” One wonders what else the university administration could have said to distance itself from Jones. That faculty member, however, unlike the 80 who signed the petition, spoke on the condition of anonymity, “because she feared it would hurt her career.” Perhaps she envisioned a public flogging to justify Tudor’s knavish remarks.

What is the most infuriating in all the jejune commentary issued by the university’s administration was the last part of Provost Simon’s prostrate appeal to the feminists of the university. He wrote: “At a university, however, freedom of expression is fundamental to to our mission.”

Really? Does Provost Simon really believe that claptrap? Mr. Jones does not, I assure you.

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