Lawmakers from both parties have issued denunciations since the audit. Democrats promised legislation that would criminalize obstruction of the state auditor. Republicans called for Ms. Napolitano’s office to be subpoenaed. One lawmaker demanded she step down.The administrations said to have tweaked their surveys — including the campuses in Santa Cruz, San Diego and Irvine — have so far faced little scrutiny. Some faculty leaders have argued that campus administrators have been cowed by the president’s office, which oversees the system’s $31.5 billion budget. In an essay on the recent turmoil, Christopher Newfield, a professor of American culture at the U.C. Santa Barbara, wrote in part, “Much if not most of U.C. has become a culture of silence, of conformity.” Dianne Klein, a spokeswoman for Ms. Napolitano, rejected the characterization… “I really do not believe that there’s this clicking of the heels and saluting when Janet Napolitano walks in,” she said.

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by Mike McPhate, The New York Times.

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