College president baffled at the fruits of "higher learning"
According to OpinionJournal, civil discussions have all but disappeared at America's institutions of so-called higher learning, to be replaced by name calling and insults. Academics pretend to be confused why. So when the Jews at San Francisco State University were told, "Hitler should have finished the job," to which:

The school's president, Robert Corrigan, was also perplexed: "In my 14 years as president of this university, I have never been as deeply distressed and angered," he said. "Strong, even provocative, speech is not the problem, nor are strongly held opinions on highly charged topics. Rather, it was the lack of civility and decency."

Hello? Get a clue, Bobby! College freshmen today arrive on campus, and the first thing you and your fellow profs and administrators teach them during orientation is who is favored, who is protected, and who is fair for attack. You give them a list of arcane rules and regulations about what they may say, and to whom, and what they may not say, and to whom. Then you proscribe gestures and other means of self expression.

The problem is, prof, that college students are not mature. Their morals are incompletely formed. They have an seriously inflated sense of their own wisdom. But students are clever and they know that you are far from impartial. So they play you like a Stradivarius, and you just smile about it - until now.

Sorry, Dr. Frankenstein, but the monster you made is awake and roaring.