That is a wrong decision.

If anything falls under the core HN guideline, "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.", it would be this.

I do not know how treatment of a founding thinker of Western Civilization in a top school would not be of intellectual interest.

I posted an article about the same story and it got flagged and taken down. Maybe too controversial?