Protests: Middlebury College and Colleges

protests: At the University of California-Berkeley and its surrounding community, protests against scheduled speakers have turned ugly, according to Hamilton Spectator. In just the place where the clash of ideas is most valuable, students are shutting themselves off to points of view they don't agree with. At Middlebury College in Vermont, a professor accompanying libertarian author Charles Murray was injured by an angry mob. At the moment when young minds are supposed to assess the strengths and weaknesses of arguments, they are answering challenges to their beliefs with anger and violence instead of facts and reason. For decades, colleges and universities, public and private, have been fighting in court to maintain ridiculous restrictions on expression. As much as university administrators lament student-led intolerance and narrow ideas about free speech, they played a role in their creation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.