Columbia University Censorship
12 October 2006Most everyone not living in a cave is aware of the brouhaha at Columbia University last week when College Republicans had speakers from The Minute Man Project. Liberal student groups orchestrated a protest inside the event and prevented the speakers from speaking. Columbia University officials promised an investigation.
On Wednesday evening Columbia University College Republicans had another event, this time with a former Islamic terrorist and a former member of Hitler’s Nazi Youth. Columbia promised to keep the event in order and somewhere around one thousand students registered to attend. This time Columbia decided that, in order to maintain order, they had to limit the number of people allowed into the event. So, while the event was peaceful and without interruptions, it also had only a handful of people in attendance.
The bottom line is this. Liberal student groups continue to effectively censor conservative speakers on the campus of Columbia University. The administration of Columbia University is either complicit in the censorship or they are horribly incompetent. That the administration of any university cannot control the actions of their student body is disgraceful.
Columbia is a very high profile university. Tuition at Columbia is not inexpensive. On top of that, Columbia’s School of Journalism is purported to be one of the best in the country. So, students at Columbia University, particularly in the School of Journalism, are absolutely prevented from hearing any view on campus that is in opposition to the liberal position. I imagine that is very good for diversity and and balance in education.
I can tell you this. Were I the parent of a student at Columbia University, I would be up in arms over these events. Columbia would either punish these thugs and errant student organizations and prevent further abuses or my child would be out of that school and I’d go to court if necessary to get every cent of tuition refunded. Parents of college students, particularly parents who are footing the bill, absolutely must stand up to these outrages. While many universities today have an extreme liberal bias that is evident everywhere on campus, they all still depend on the almighty dollar. Student tuition is the name of the game and parents have more power than they imagine. If students simply stop going to the worst offending institutions, those institutions would have no choice but to shape up or close their doors.
That won’t happen, of course. Most parents are sadly unaware of and uninformed about what is going on in many colleges and universities today. Just like most people who go to the polls next month and vote will not know who many of the candidates are, what the issues are or where each candidate stands on those issues. To many of us don’t take the time to become informed. Until that changes we can expect our colleges and universities along with our elected officials to get worse and worse.
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July 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 am
There are a lot of universities out there that’s having the same problem. So the better thing to do was to be careful and act accordingly on such situations. Take full responsibility with what’s happening in the universities on where their kids are going. Better decide for what is best for their children. And think practically.