People talked about the shooting, of course, but much of the conversation was devoted to musings on the treatment of mental illness in universities, the problem of "narcissism," violence in the media and in popular culture, copycat killings, the alienation of immigrant students, and the question of Evil.
For universities, the problem will not become apparent until years in the future.
As president, he said, he has ruffled feathers because he is trying to "move from one kind of university to another kind of university," adding, "The problem at the New School is not necessarily me".
The university said the problem was not Salaita's views but his "lack of civility".
Last year, two all-male clubs voted to allow women, as the university investigated the problem of sexual assault and as other elite campuses in the north-east confronted their own fraternities and sororities.
The university says the problem has been made worse by poor diets and an increase in the number of obese people.
The university attributed the problem to human error and software problems.
Considering the increasing capacities of universities, the problems that libraries encounter with are increasing day by day.
If universities admit the problem at all, the most they are likely to do is introduce new top grades.
Today's poll comes after the head of Cambridge University yesterday attacked "meddling" ministers for dumping universities with the problem of social mobility.
But no combination of incentives and penalties will succeed, they warned, unless universities take the problem more seriously and graduates can find more good jobs.
