This poster is responding to a group of faculty members at Columbia denouncing the university’s administration decision on a sundry of issues. One of the issues was the way the President of Columbia strongly denounced the so-called President of Iran.

My question: Say that a Columbia department sponsored a forum, to which it invited a virulently homophobic, ethnically bigoted political leader — who was also big on using the power of government to suppress dissent — on the quite plausible theory that he’s an important leader and it’s valuable for Columbia students to learn such people. Imagine someone like David Duke, perhaps, only ideologically worse and more powerful. And say a University official forcefully but substantively criticized this leader’s speech at this forum, while of course allowing the leader to talk.

Do you think these Columbia faculty would or should condemn the University official’s behavior? Oh, wait, that’s exactly what happened here, except the person wasn’t named David Duke.

More on Columbia from a different poster.

Five students drinking Gatorade and water for a week are apparently all it takes to bring a major university to its knees. Columbia has had more than its share of lunatic events this year - the noose, the cancellation of the Minuteman speakers for the second time, inviting and then abusing the Iranian madman, and last week another controversy over a biased comment someone had scrawled into a library book. But the collapse of the university in the face of five student hunger strikers - the number was reduced to two students before the university folded - makes all the previous lunacies seem sane.

The strikers got most of their scattershot agenda. New faculty will now have to endure diversity indoctrination as part of their hiring. Columbia’s core curriculum, much too “Eurocentric” for the strikers, will now feature more more required courses on Asia, Africa, and Latin America. More money and staff will be added for ethnic studies. The Office of Multicultural Affairs will be expanded and another high-ranking diversicrat will be named to the administration. The collapse will cost Columbia at least $50 million.

Go multiculturalism. May you ruin everything.

From Volokh:

U.S. Magistrate Judge Wayne Brazil issued a temporary injunction against the CSU system Wednesday, in which he struck down a portion of the CSU conduct code that mandates students “be civil to one another.” That language would likely not survive First Amendment scrutiny at trial, the magistrate found.

“It’s fine to say, ‘We hope you’re civil to each other,’” Brazil said from the bench. “It’s not fine to say, ‘We’ll punish you if you’re not.’”

Liberals whine about your rights being taken away from you by the Bush administration but are largely silent at the appalling measures some university’s have taken to squelch free speech. This all comes out of that multiculturalism dreck.

By the way if you want to see ‘tolerance’ and ‘multiculturalism’ gone horribly wrong check out the University of Delaware. What was the administration thinking?

This post does an excellent job of analyzing and breaking down the ideological diversity problem in academy.

Instapundit notes that several ivy league schools are seeing highest return on their endowments in years. He suggests taxing those gains as heavily as liberal want to tax corporate gains. Anything to infrastructure people out of poverty.