Yes, it is an existential crisis because the Cal Board I was talking about is the Board of Regents for the University of California which has campuses all over the state and which includes CaL Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara etc… that board had authorized a degree of independent action by the local schools never dreaming that UCLA would go rogue, causing a constitutional crisis for the Cal Board, state senators, blah Blah.
That is why the Cal Berkeley AD is whining like the cousin that didn’t get invited to the cotillion coming out party [they got this, we should get 1/2]. Typical UC school system disfunction that they are famous for.