US News and World Report has published  a selected recent history of controversial campus speakers, complete with campus wide and audience reaction.  And to no one's great surprise liberal and leftist students, not interested in hearing about or learning about others' ideas, silenced many of the more conservative speakers more often than the reverse.  So much for the yakety yak about in freedom of speech, the university as a place of diverse views, blah, blah, blah.  A sample:Sept. 24, 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at Columbia University while hundreds of students protest around the campus. Among his comments: "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country."Sept. 14, 2007 The University of California-Davis rescinds its invitation to former Harvard President Lawrence Summers ....Nov. 30, 2006 A fire alarm is pulled twice, students are assaulted, and protesters boo during a speech by Rep. Tom Tancredo, an outspoken...(Read Full Post)