In an act to preserve free speech on college campuses, Claremont McKenna College in southern California will discipline seven students responsible for preventing an audience from hearing conservative speaker Heather Mac Donald talk in April.
According to Inside Higher Ed, five of the seven students responsible for the disruption will receive suspensions. In contrast, Middlebury College in Vermont issued punishments that fall short of suspensions for 67 students whose college policy violations ended in violence and intolerance towards social scientist Charles Murray and his opponent during a March debate. Writing in the Atlantic, Peter Beinart warns that violently shutting out speakers some students disagree with will easily lead to the “disaster” of intensely suppressing the free speech of fellow students with minority views.
