Ryan Wagner’s letter to the editor in today’s Badger Herald begs serious questions about the role of the administration in student affairs.

Although I have long believed that the university should ideally operate in an apolitical vacuum, I do grant some leeway to the university when the views they espouse directly correlate with their immediate and expressed interests.

The university’s stance against the marriage amendment was logically sound, if for no other reason than it adversely affected the way they were able to attract top talent to the university and thus related specifically to their interests.

Taking Ryan’s claims on face value, as I personally cannot say that I received the email he speaks of, the university’s alleged support of this issue certainly doesn’t fit the bill of this self-interested permission, but worse yet, it runs dangerously close to violating existing Wisconsin statutory law.

Wisconsin statute ?