If you don't understand what's normal and what's not in a university, maybe hold off on claiming "this is completely normal", or ask someone who knows. What happened was profoundly abnormal —cannot remember a precedent—and that's true regardless of what anyone thinks of her work.
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And finally, the profound abnormality of the process means that this has implications way beyond one particular person: for any academic already at UNC or considering UNC, and for academic freedom in general. We could do with less uninformed bluster.
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