Removing the language about Israel’s genocide in Gaza from the webpage did not, the provost wrote, violate Raz’s academic freedom, because academic freedom has nothing to do with “public facing” materials like the university website. I wrote “he concluded,” but here’s the thing: when a university higher-up writes to you, you can’t be sure who’s behind the message. In other words, I don’t want to put words in the provost’s mouth, even if he did sign the email. I could say we are homeless, then, those of us who insist on naming the genocide in Gaza publicly, no matter the consequences. Stockton’s eager capitulation to John Scarpa’s demands make the thing we already suspected objectively clear: it is not academic authority, but authoritarianism, that upholds Stockton University.