Baby Boom Censors

Nick Gillespie | February 4, 2003

"Now that [baby boomers are] in charge of the university, the rules have changed. As students, they were members of free-speech movements; now that they've earned tenure, they have become advocates of speech codes. Radicals when they were on the bottom, they've become censors when they're on top. And they see no discrepancy in their actions."

That's the University of Massachusetts' Daphne Patai writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the response to Web sites that invite students to talk about politicized classrooms. Well worth reading the whole thing...