Guarding a taboo

The first reactions to the planned opening of higher education are as expected. 

College sit-ins and the hurling of petrol bombs confirm that the government is attempting to break a taboo of the era following the restoration of democracy, which by now is only being defended by a rearguard minority. 

But the reactions of unionized students and professors have long since ceased to echo the anxieties of the majority of the student body and the academic community.

A closed state-run university cannot be a good university.