Columbia University: I'm Still Waiting

It is too easy for a major bastion of liberal orthodoxy like Columbia University to pay lip service to freedom of expression. When a conservative speaker attempted to address a hostile and unruly crowd of leftist students, this speaker was hooted down and given the bum's rush from the stage. These students physically attacked him, warning him never to return. The President of Columbia, Dr. Bollinger, promised a thorough and immediate investigation, promising that the hooligans involved would face the direst of consequences. That was a month ago. Even though the faces of these "hooligans" were clearly recorded on video, nary a one was identified or punished. Dr. Bollinger's promise of freedom of expression seems limited only to those who espouse sentiments from the left. Those on the right would do well to avoid studying at a school that is little more than a front for an ideology that despises what an earlier generation would have termed patriotic.