[ifinnegan]

“as a Conservative libertarian, I would allow private colleges to discriminate on any basis they choose”

Yes.

Yet, these universities get billions in federal tax-payer originated funds. By their own standards and policies, these liberals are subject to oversight.

[Ohioan]

Yes. They invite big Government meddling. But the Leftist faculty has for generations been hypocritically willing to attack Conservative spokesmen, for even the slightest hint of inconsistency. I was only 18, a long, long time ago, when I vowed never to allow them any basis for discrediting me, on that basis.

The Constitution left all moral/value questions to the States. The right to control, premised on a right to effectively bribe, is a dangerous & wrong-headed principle.