Odd Timing at Northwestern

It's hard to read the following item from Inside Higher Ed about goings on at Northwestern U without thinking about the timing: [excerpt]

Morton Schapiro, president of Northwestern University, has written to United Airlines, urging the airline to apologize for the way a flight attendant treated the university's Muslim chaplain, The Chicago Tribune reported. In a case that has attracted much anger on social media, a flight attendant declined to give the chaplain an unopened can of Diet Coke, saying that unopened cans could be used as a weapon...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/06/03/northwestern-president-united-should-apologize

Is this the same Northwestern U calling for someone else to apologize for bad behavior that recently dismissed the case against Prof. Laura Kipnis without an apology?

If you haven't heard of the Kipnis case - about which we have blogged - see the links below:

http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/05/cautionary-tale.html and http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-cautionary-tale-follow-up.html

From now on we'll take Morton Schapiro with a grain of you-know-what