We don't accurse an arsonist of being stupid in playing with
> matches.
We do if he burns his fingers, which seems like an apt metaphor for Wise.
About the class as a whole, I don't know. From my *very *limited experience with university administrators, I can't recognize half these characterizations. It seems to me like a significant, if not always major, part of their responsibility is defusing and diverting "opposition from below" skillfully: crafting careful statements that offend nobody and say nothing, wasting the time of campus activists on endless rounds of fruitless meetings, hatching any necessary plots far behind the scenes, etc.
Wise seems to have tried an opposite strategy, and not because that one's never worked.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."