This story raises the question of timeliness for me. Why is the broader readership hearing about the story after the train wreck, when a concerted pr campaign by his opponents against the president raising the same issues, has been going on since 2006? As an alumna of the college, who has followed the events since I started receiving correspondence from both Nichol and Powell, the campaign stemmed from the fact that, as one of his opponents wrote, they perceived Nichol [which was not necessarily his intention or displayed by his behavior] as having "no regard for the feelings of the minority of the people in the state (both Protestant and Catholic) who are traditional conservative Christians.)" There is some evidence that such folks may have been stirred up for a political agenda by those who found Nichol a "liberal Democrat" witness that the original campaign was organized out of Newt Ginrich's office. See my blog post at The Writing Corner http://www.newstrust.net/webx?displaySourceStoryReviews@@.f4e89f0--an opinion piece which relies on a link within it to a previous post for much of the background including the opponents' statements, such being the time constraints of a blogger with a day job : ) To me the interesting comparison would be with a California case which received much more attention as it was occurring w. a very different outcome: Chemerinski deselection and then re-selection as dean of the new law school at UC Irvine