Great editorial, thanks, this mess  absolutely demands a thorough investigation to clear the air.  
Otherwise rumors will  continue to fly, anger will rise,  everyone's credibility will suffer, and we'll keep hearing those wild claims that this is all the result of "Political-correctness gone wild." (as yet we have no proof for this.)  
But just who should demand the investigation--  the Board of Trustees, UO President, the media or Halls himself?    And who is really at fault here?  Are there things Halls wants kept quiet?
It's time someone in  UO authority speaks out on this issue,  as these banal statements from their PR flacks are only making things worse.  And now we've become a bloody  international incident!