OPINION

In Ward Churchill Case, Who Defines 'Acceptable' Speech?

By MAURICE ISSERMAN

Over the past several months, Hamilton College, the small liberal-arts institution in upstate New York where I teach history, has been the site of some of the most heavily publicized conflicts ever fought in the history of American higher education to define the limits of acceptable speech on a college campus.

The...

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