Dr James Kierstead: Another high-ranking Victoria University of Wellington administrator doesn’t understand free speech

A while back now, we opened Oko, the staff newsletter at the university where both of us still have adjunct positions. One of the featured articles that week was ‘The Thing about Words’ by Bryony James, who (the article reminded us) was ‘Te Herenga Waka’s Provost, and member of Te Hiwa.’ (The latter, if you haven’t been keeping up, is the name that the university’s Senior Management Team adopted a couple of years ago.)