Despite its legions of administrators with six-figure salaries, the University of Connecticut could not have handled the recent controversy about sexual assault among students worse than it did.

First UConn President Susan Herbst responded with mere indignation to a complaint by a group of students to the federal government that the university was indifferent to accusations of sexual assault. Herbst seemed to be purporting to know that all accusations had been handled properly by the university when the university had not yet reviewed the cases at issue.