The Missing Item on the Regents' Agenda

B5 appears crossed out on the revised agenda above

We'll say more about the Regents' meeting last Thursday in a later post. (Yes, we have preserved the recording, as always.) But blog readers will know that originally on the agenda was item B5 dealing with sanctions for a regent who intervened improperly in the student admissions process. Although the item did not name the regent, it was almost certainly Richard Blum whose letter on behalf of an applicant was noted in news reports. Yet, the item was removed from the agenda.

Blum's name came up last week in connection with his wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who was notably absent from DC for several days. Her absence was ascribed to Blum's hospitalization for an undisclosed illness. Blum is age 86. He did not attend the Regents' meetings last week. See:

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/09/28/feinstein-returning-to-dc-after-husbands-hospitalization-1391479.