OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 8:46 A.M. ET:  Our college campuses have become sandboxes, places where children are kept as children.  Alan Dershowitz, late of the Harvard Law School, warns us about that development.  From the superb website of Gatestone Institute: 

The current code word being tossed around to protect political correctness from competition in the marketplace of ideas is "unsafe."

"I feel unsafe" has become the argument stopper on many university campuses. Efforts have been made to shut down controversial events or speakers, some of which have succeeded, at MIT, the University of Michigan, Northeastern University, Oxford, Hampshire College, Smith College, and other great universities, on the grounds that students would feel "unsafe." Students must, of course, be and feel physically safe in their dorms, classrooms, and campuses. That's what university and city police are for: to protect against physical assaults and threats. But no one on a university campus should be or feel safe or protected when it comes to the never-ending war of ideas.

An important role of the university is to challenge every idea, every truth, every sacred notion, even if challenge makes students (or faculty) feel intellectually uncomfortable, unsettled, or unsafe. There must be no safe spaces in the classroom or auditorium that protect members of the university community from dangerous, disturbing or even emotionally unsettling ideas.

COMMENT:  Dead on, from Dersh.  Please read the rest of the piece, and circulate it.  Free speech on many college campuses is in crisis, and the crisis will spread to the general society unless we stop the rot.

May 31,  2015