Does the following story sound familiar?
It is taken from a January 5, 2005 article
in the NY Times, with actual names omitted.

At the end, I’ll tell you what “X” is. (It’s not a university.)

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Dozens of dismissals and structural changes at X have roiled the ranks of alumni and former teachers, with some people promising to withhold donations and keep X out of their wills.

X’s administrators say the reaction…is the work of a small group of disgruntled former faculty members…. They dismiss the complaints as exaggerated….

The turmoil began around Thanksgiving, when opponents of the current administration said form letters went out to dozens of…teachers, saying their services would no longer be needed in 2005.

“We're calling it the Thanksgiving Massacre,” said one teacher…who has taught…at X since 1959. “I'm chuckling, but it's nothing to chuckle about.”

P, who took over as president of X…, said that in fact only 29…faculty members were asked not to return, and he said the dismissals came as form letters rather than in discussions because of the threat of lawsuits….

He said the dismissals were part of a broad effort to update X’s curriculum….

The dismissals were first reported in late November by [two journalists].

But even before that, J [one of the journalists] had criticized, in a detailed series of articles, what he said were changes by the new administration…that were diluting X’s mission….

A spokesman for X said that J had “fanned the flames” of the administration’s opponents with inaccurate reporting and that X officials were no longer talking to him.

J said that he had repeatedly offered space to X officials to correct any errors but that he would do so only if they would answer questions. P also issued an implicit threat to take legal action against him, J said.

“I’ve done a considerable amount of very accurate research,” J said. “In their desire to make X a better educational institution, the administration has rushed into making changes without conducting thorough, proper research among their own faculty, staff and constituents, and as a result they have made very bad decisions.”
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“Those that want to stay status quo and not change are going to have a very difficult time surviving,” P said. “We’re going to survive and thrive, and these changes are going to get us there.”

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Okay, what is X?

X is the famed and venerable Interlochen music camp in Michigan, founded 77 years ago. Interlochen is an annual rite of passage for thousands of young musicians, the nation's major camp of its type, which claims to produce 10 percent of orchestral musicians in the country.

Try this link to the NY Times article.

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With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give NO QUARTER, nor waste arguments, where they will certainly be lost.

—William Lloyd Garrison