PUSHBACK – AT 12:22 P.M. ET:  With all the depressing stories about thuggery in our colleges and universities, and attempts by the hard left to censor free speech, there are points of light, students and faculty members fighting back.  From College Fix: 

Northwestern University has been eerily quiet when controversial speakers come to campus – former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro.

And the student government wants to keep it that way.

It passed a resolution that went through four months of drafting, asking the administration “to allow speakers of all viewpoints,” protect them from “threat of disruption” and enforce its own disciplinary policies “should disruption occur.”

Only “peaceful” protests that “adhere” to the student handbook should be allowed, says the resolution. It asks the administration to expand “efforts to include viewpoint and intellectual diversity.”

COMMENT:  "Intellectual diversity" is a term rarely heard on today's leftist campuses.  It is welcome and needed.  While the censors and party liners are still in firm control in most places, there is an increasingly organized resistance to the power grab by the academic left.  There is cautious reason for optimism, as Northwestern shows.

Alumni should withhold donations from colleges that don't make a full commitment to free speech and intellectual diversity.

March 21, 2017