Noah Millman:

What makes the Arday situation distinctive, and different from the Platner situation and from my former colleague who claimed she was chased by a rhinoceros once too often, is that the organization — Cambridge University — doesn’t seem to have responded with any recognition that the organization’s mission was in any way damaged or threatened, other than in a public relations sense, if the accusations against Arday were true. That raises the reasonable suspicion that the organization doesn’t recognize that it has a mission, or, alternatively, believes that whatever Arday was doing was unrelated to that mission. That suspicion, in turn, is a far, far greater threat to the organization than Arday’s hire was.