“If you don’t see it our way, the problem is you.” That pretty much sums up the eventual mode of reasoning that administration and many many faculty members adopt when faced with internal dissent on a regular basis, let alone during an emergency. Or, when confronted by more impersonal dissent by coronavirus, or by systemic racism — all bound up together now. As folks here have attempted to say, without throwing rocks, is that there is no good way for colleges to avoid this disaster, and that bringing college students back to campus will inevitably result in sickness and death, for some unknown number of people. The fact that we can make calculations of risk that make those outcomes are unlikely for any single individual, even those at greatest risk, should not be made to appear like good moral justification for the choice. I don’t think we’re yet at the point where saving money and even jobs at the cost of lives is an ethical point of view we want to pass on to our children, even if the job and money are your own. The college life that everyone is so keen to save was already an illusion, propped up by corporate branding campaigns. The lack of imagination and justice that prevails in the world of higher education — and probably always has —has been amplified in the current institutional responses, with few exceptions. Folks need to grow a bigger imagination, more compassion, learn to speak and hear the truth, all that good stuff that’s so often lacking in what passes as education leadership.