The role of a university is to turn out the managerial classes, the "entrepreneurs", the bankers, lawyers, and politicians which will continue to promulgate the status quo, while ordering the serfdom.
"Never can our kids query that!"
I would contend that "outside agitators" is a means to save face from the university, while potentially threatening the students with expulsion.
Recant and remain, while the university will promulgate that it was not the student body leading the protests.
