It seems really clear that the order as operations is as follows:

1. Administration makes demands of Harvard to change the way it's operating to fall in line.

2. Harvard stands up against these demands.

3. Administration is using every means possible to punish Harvard for daring taking a stand against it.

This is what dictatorships look like.

Surely even if you tried to give them the benefit of the doubt the number of back trackings and self damaging actions taken without any given explanation would make you start to wonder? I would love to dislike their rationales for their decisions but it often seems like they genuinely haven't thought things through, which is even more frustrating.

Nah brah.

It's pretty clear these guys are morons. They're all impulse and no follow-up. It's the panic of the hour with them. No longer term than past lunch.