
Discusses John Stossel's “You Can’t Say That!” TV special, particularly the examples of the use of foul language on private property, sexual harassment complaints and protests at universities
[F]ree speech is threatened precisely where it should be enshrined—at America's universities. Once oases of open exchange, free speech at many elite colleges has become as quaint as pep rallies and glee clubs. Ward Connerly, a University of California regent and vocal proponent of colorblindness in college admissions, was shouted down mercilessly at the University of Texas in November 1998 ... Several Columbia University students whose raucous protests interfered with a fall 1998 Accuracy in Academia seminar sound like Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards at the depths of the Cultural Revolution.