On Wednesday night, NYU chose appeasement over upholding freedom of speech on campus. An NYU—approved Objectivist student group spent significant time, money and effort to advertise to the public its "Unveiling the Danish Cartoons" panel discussion with the administration's knowledge (and its involvement in planning the event's logistics.) Suddenly, responding to the threats and cries of Muslim students and their worldwide supporters, NYU changed the rules the night before the event: keep out the public and we'll let you show the cartoons, or don't show the cartoons and we'll let the public to attend. In effect NYU said: "We're going to sacrifice your right to free speech one way or another; we are too afraid to protect a civilized forum for the discussion of free speech because we're intimidated by a screaming mob that is potentially violent." NYU caved to intimidation rather than insist that every student has the right to express his thoughts, no matter whether they are...(Read Full Post)