March 30, 2007

Social Justice and Political Orthodoxy

By GREG LUKIANOFF

Columbia University has had more than its share of free-speech controversies over the last academic year, including a student melee that ended a speech by the founder of the Minuteman Project and a short-lived attempt to punish a sports club for using a rude word. One controversy, however, seems to have left the administration particularly puzzled: Why, they seem to be asking, would anyone object to Columbia Teachers College's requirement that students demonstrate their "commitment to social

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