She wasn't showing any remorse before she found out that she was being charged. She's not sorry she did it, she's terribly sorry that she might go to jail for it though. It probably won't amount to much, what is the sentence for being intolerant to those you call intolerant?

"They were intimidated by an authority figure into believing that this was not a criminal act."

W. T. F??? I don't accept that these people didn't know they were breaking the law no matter what Jacobsen said to them. Of course, if it's true, then how did such stupid, gullible people ever manage to get into college?

The perfect punishment for the professor and the students would be for them to replace the desplay exactly as it was and to have to hand out anti-abortion literature for the time that the display is up.

"I deeply regret that I was caught on camera commiting a crime. I also regret that I did not send my brainwashed students to kill the photographer and retrieve the camera."

Yea, notice the use of the term "dismantle."

She didn't destroy a University approved monument. She only "dismantled" it.

Hardly a crime there. Move along.

That's the thing about liberal bullies. Once someone, anyone, stands up to them ... they abandon their deeply-held beliefs.

It's why we don't elect them.

I'm not impressed. It sounds like all she was sorry for is getting called out on her vandalism.

She and her students should be sentenced to sensitivity training on 1st Amendment issues.

Immediate, forced retirement. Bravo.

Another one of those "I'm sorry I got caught" apologies. Reminds me of the movie (Old School, I think) where Will Ferrell got drunk, shouted something to the effect of "Let's go streaking! Follow me!" and started running down the street. About a block later he looked behind him to find there was no one there.

Wavemaker - more like retirement four weeks earlier than planned. With the same pension and bennies as before.

However, had this individual been actually terminated by the university, there probably would have been an adverse effect on her pension, not to mention an adverse effect on leftard profs who think that their way MUST be the only way.

NKU is ducking this bigtime and hoping it will blow over. Perhaps they are in negotiations with Cynthia McKinney to go slug a (former) lacrosse player at Duke University.

A regret isn't an apology. If she hadn't been caught do you think she'd have any regrets? Me neither.

I liked the president's original statement, but looking at this whole thing in perspective, and seeing the students getting off apparently [politically incorrect, but I have Highland blood in me, so there] Scott-Free, this is indeed an attempt to paper over some pretty nasty stuff without any real accountability.

Charge the Prof and the Students! Lets see what a panel of peers have to say about it!

I guess if we had the culpable students flayed alive in front of the entire student body, then some of the commentors might be satisfied...

At the least, the university's actions put the fear of the law--if not the fear of God--in their heads. To me, it sounds like a perfect opportunity to learn civic responsibilities through dodging a legal bullet on a technicality. And nobody got killed.

I don't know the professor's 27-year history. Maybe she was absolutely brilliant, then slipped a cog. Maybe she was a moonbat all the while. But lacking that information, I'm in no position to determine whether early retirement, even by a few weeks, is or is not appropriate. And I'm certainly in no position to judge the school's president's behavior as somehow defective.

Sure wish I could join you guys' world where all knowledge resides in your brain pans and you leap to judgment so inerrantly. Must be nice...

It's all well and good to keep an open mind, but if those students honestly believed what they were doing was okay, must have made the mistake of letting their brains fall out.

John Burgess, if I had any confidence in their ability to learn a damn thing from this experience, I might agree with you more than I do. But you can't fix stupid.

The apology is Sandy Burgularish in that He was not sorry until He got caught with the goods in His pants..i wonder what He destroyed anyway?

"They were intimidated by an authority figure into believing that this was not a criminal act."

Well, then by all means let them off the hook, we can hardly expect more from 4th graders, they don't know bett...what's that you say? They were college students? College students that don't now the difference between basic right and wrong and that stifling another's free speech is not how one exercises one's own? Oh, sorry, then.

I certainly hope she gets fired, I can hardly believe the taxpayers want to fund the unsullied retirement of someone that, if they weren't close to retirement, would probably have been outright canned.

If your looking for protection and affirmation of your First Amendment rights the last place to look is a college campus. If you're looking for the biggest enemy of the First Amendment, look for a tenured professor in the humanities department.

She did not apologize for her attempt to deny others' freedoms. Since that is her transgression, legally and morally, she hasn't apologized.

That she is sorry she got her students into trouble shows only that there is honor among vandals.

That she is sorry she brought NKU into disrepute shows only that she's worried about her pension.

She is Sorry, but an attribute of her persona cannot be equated with an apology.