No Academic Freedom for You!

The UC Regents declined to have dinner with President of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, under pressure from liberal professors. Summers apparently served a controversial term, but if Columbia University can provide a forum for those who deny the Holocaust and sponsor state run terrorism, certainly the Regents of the University of California could share a meal conversation with "a former treasury secretary, university administrator, and respected economist". As the Harvard Crimson pointed out:

...the unrestricted marketplace of ideas that must form the heart of any university worth the name is being poisoned by a perverse pressure to conform truth to political agenda and stifle any speaker who espouses uncomfortable or invonveneint (sic) opinions.

It would seem that academic freedom only extends to the political left.

(hat tip: Instapundit)