However, as for what the public wants, shutting down the University for good would keep with what Rota had to do. The public agreed that was the right move and there is no reason for them to change their mind now.
As for the 1,400-some-odd other days that they sat on this without doing anything, that is a great question. There is no such precedence for what the public believes is the right move. I have no knowledge of what the public might want here.