UCLA recants university official's book suppression::

"In a letter to ARI, the UCLA School of Law issued a formal apology for the incident, and it explained that the decision to ban the book was inconsistent with its vigorous commitment to freedom of speech and respectful debate. Moreover, the school admitted that it had fallen short of its own commitment to apply policies in a content-neutral manner. The administration detailed steps it is taking to prevent such incidents in the future." https://ari.aynrand.org/blog/2017/02/...

Why should a university "policy" on freedom of books in a "content-neutral manner" be necessary at all and why was it not obvious to officials that their suppression was wrong from the beginning?

Absolutely, why are the tax payers in this country funding this insanity!

Totally agree. The agenda is to destroy individual liberties for a subjective cause.

Totally end taxpayer funding of "educational" institutions, and the problem goes away.

It's a continuation of the New Left campus takeovers and violence from the late 1960s and early 1970s -- except now they are entrenched in university administrations and faculty. When they can't run the government or completely control who and what books are allowed on a campus they take to the streets Alinsky-Ayers style. It's more serious than ignorant students getting in touch with their feelings -- the values causing the feelings of the activists are corrupt, which is fanned by their teachers.

Higher education has become higher brainwashing,the getting in touch with your feelings is more important than connecting thought with reason.

"This shameful incident reflects a wider phenomenon on American campuses. At university, students should learn to think, to engage with different views, and thus to grow intellectually. But increasingly, students learn to put their feelings above facts. Some students demand to be protected from what they merely believe, without evidence, are uncongenial views. They demand that non-orthodox views be silenced. And such universities as UCLA willingly coddle and appease them."