[Fish out of Water]

Being a private college Ithaca has a lot more latitude in who should be allowed to speak on campus and what subjects are discussed. Those who don’t like the choices made can find an alternative school. Free speech does not entitle anyone to come on to my property and make offensive comments to me. Ithaca probably takes government funds directly and indirectly through Veterans scholarships and other sources. My concern after reading the comments here that if we allow school choice and vouchers that the government will feel as justified as many on this forum in dictating school policy.

[goodnesswins]

Do YOU live at Ithaca College, and own it, too? Don't quite get your post......maybe it's too late for my brain...

[krogers58]

Oh where to start....

Being a private college Ithaca has a lot more latitude in who should be allowed to speak on campus and what subjects are discussed.

Ithaca, if it is truly a private college, is entitled to act in any manner they wish. However, they can, and will, earn the "stamp of illegitemacy", much as Bob Jones University has. Good luck finding a job, if Ithaca gets branded as radically leftist, with a company, whose leaders do not subscribe to the colleges' "philosophy". The Supreme Court, has so ruled.

Those who don’t like the choices made can find an alternative school.

This comment only serves to marginalize and diminish the argument that you are trying to make. This statement smacks of totalarianism, which is entirely the thrust of the article in question, and further serves to illustrate the fact that if one does not subscribe to your agenda, then they should not be allowed to dissent.

Free speech does not entitle anyone to come on to my property and make offensive comments to me.

With this comment, it is interesting, how you use the analogy of "my property", to disallow the differing opinion. If the argument were reversed, would this also pertain to the other sides' right to deny you the right to protest to the various "bias" commitees, were they in the majority? Unless you have a deed, or controlling interest in this college, this statement is absurd, in its entirety. Free Speech does allow someone to come to the edge of your property, and protest, as long as they don't violate your private property rights. This protest could be launched with the aid of Public address systems, which surely negate any advantage you may be attempting to gain, by denying access to your property.