Congratulations Columbia University

Perhaps it was naive for me to think that going to university I would be rewarded for being a critical thinker. In my first few years of university I, too, was swept up in thinking that was my professors and student union was saying was the right thing to do, and that we were making the world a better place.

There is some truth in the saying that "if you're not a socialist by 20 you have no heart and if you're still a socialist by 30, you have no brain"

But as Joanne is writing about today, I have learned over my many years of university that only progressives are the one's that dictate (and I don't use that word lightly) what ideas are allowed to be heard to change our
city/provinces/country/world.

Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejadto is invited to speak at one university while just a year ago Harvard's president resigns due to the controversy surrounding his remarks about innate differences between men and women and the connection to our choices in school subjects (specifically science and math)

These issues are not just in American universities. University of Victoria students can't even meet a Canadian Forces Recruiter.

Margaret Wente wrote a great article on Saturday about university culture and the concept of "dangerous ideas." Give it a read.

In my opinion, the most "dangerous" ideas are the ones that say that other ideas/opinions should not be heard.

Kate hit the nail: What's the opposite of diversity? University!

Yet another plug for a great book, Indoctrination U: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom