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… coming back to, I think, one of the questions that drove us to start making this podcast in the first place. Constance: Basically, the question is, what is the role of the university as an institution in the kind of questions that we've been dealing with in this podcast, in questions of public concern that concern and affect all of our community members or many of our community members? And I think since I started the job in the D& I office, I received so many requests or questions of whether a … have an institutional voice? And how does it use this institutional voice? Or should it use that institutional at all. Darian: I guess one of the, one of my annoying functions in this podcast is to always try to ask for some clarification. So when we talk about matters of public concern or public issues or public matters, what are we talking about, really? Constance: I think that when you look at some of the broader statements that university have issued, coming to the question of whether … about addressing these issues of important public concern or how we issue, how we address these public [00:03:00] matters. Uh, at the outset, it seems to me, we have to say that universities are always going It's going to be political in some sense. They're never completely outside of the fray of politics. And of course we now see debates in the Netherlands as well as in other countries about how universities will be funded, how that funding depends on the, let's say, political leaning of the …