New Way of Saying: "Unavailable for Comment"

Yesterday, I linked to a story about a burlesque show disrupting a climate science forum in Australia. Now there are calls for an investigation into who was responsible for booking the entertainment after two federal government agencies have withdrawn funding for future conferences. A professor at the Australian National University has been identified as the one who hired the dancers, but when called upon for comment, his office answered with this: "Mr Hutchinson was meditating this morning and unavailable for comment." So, how long will this meditation session last? Probably not long enough for the media coverage to blow over.