Neb is seeing why it maybe wasn't so wise to join such a liberal conference, afterall. These liberal school boards are seizing their moment & flexing their righteous muscles to spoil all the market-driven elements they are normally powerless to control.
This is all about petty, petty power. Intellectuals detached from the real world. Too good for the festivities in the communities right around them — they reach beyond their sacred desks to the "exotic", "real" world way out there.
They gotta be particularly pee'd about the travel restrictions right now. So someone's gotta pay!!!