"This sanitization of our campuses from unfriendly ideas is inimical to student growth and impedes the education process. Once students leave sheltered campuses, they will confront many ideas with which they will disagree. The goal of a university is to teach students to respond with reasoned debate, rather than to silence others." Yale University was the most recent in a long list of institutions of higher education to come under public scrutiny for offensive comments made b

"Universities...that strive for something more than mere return on investment — notably the education of the entire person — are given short shrift by examining mere financial metrics." "Education is not merely about finding the right answer; it is knowing how and why we arrived at that conclusion in order to appreciate the process. Campus should be a place where complex issues are confronted, preconceived notions are challenged and faculties of critical thinking are stimulat

"The distinction of male and female, accompanied by the respective pronouns he and she, has been expanded on these campuses with a nebulous vocabulary of invented pronouns. As fluid as the 'gender continuum' they represent, these pronouns represent those individuals who feel that they are 'genderqueer,' or do not fall into the categories of male or female." How far does academia go to accommodate the demands of every individual? Are inventing new words and rewriting the rule

"Once bastions of free expression and open debate, modern American universities prohibit speech in a variety of ways to protect students from ideas some deem 'offensive,' 'harmful' or 'upsetting.'" Throughout the past year, conservatives and liberals alike have warned of the deteriorating state of discourse in our nation's universities. With students increasingly protesting and demanding protection from "offensive" ideas, is the American university in crisis? If even the hall