The ruling appears to be a thinly veiled power grab, using a remarkably broad definition of sexual harassment as “any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” to stifle political speech that touches on sex, such as expressing an opinion on gay marriage.

Shibley said that it can pretty much make an entire campus guilty of harassment, as anybody who is “unreasonably offended by hearing (or overhearing) anything having to do with sexual or gender-based topics” will be able file a harassment charge against the speaker.

Fortunately, the free-speech advocates at FIRE are all over this one. And there may not be a lot of popular support for government encroachment on our fundamental rights of expression at the moment, given the scandals about politicization of the IRS and spying on reporters. Still, it's one more step in a frightening direction that could take years to sort out.

I don't know what is scarier, the short film or this article from The Atlantic that marginalizes the reality depicted in it. 

Yes, I get the for-profit thing. But, given the questionable benefits of college-for-all in 2013, why should anyone go into debt for the college experience? Is it a good idea for a 40-year-old office manager to still have to make payments on beer-pong tournaments and gender-studies classes, even if those payments are $100 a month?

The device was not unfruitful by any means and produced at least one remarkable novel, American Pastoral, about the wreckage of the Sixties counterculture. But it was as if Roth could go no further with his examination of his own experience. When he finally did allow the impotent Zuckerman to be again the main actor in the story, in the anemic Exit Ghost, the last Zuckerman novel, it was to bring his character to the dead end that emphasis on sexuality had become for him. In the penultimate Zuckerman, The Human Stain, a professor rejects his African-American roots and passes for white and Jewish, only to be ensnarled in political correctness and anti-Semitism.

Both the protagonist-professor and the narrator-Zuckerman find that they are ultimately impotent to affect the course of events or even to understand them fully. It’s as if Roth had been acknowledging for some time that his approach to fiction and the intellectual limits he accepted for himself fell short of encompassing the truth.

To his list, I would add the lying about educational content, especially "critical thinking." Rarely are college students required to learn anything of the sort. Those who use critical thinking to resist leftist platitudes and manias, however, can get in trouble.

Going to college is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for success.

Today, for example, the Hamas Student Union in Gaza published a disturbing cartoon, depicting a stick-figure arrayed in the Palestinian flag throwing the star of David into a trash can. Arabic text below the image reads as follows: “Keep the world clean.”

Read the full story here.

Last year, Greg Lukianoff entitled his book on the rise of intolerance on campus "Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate." If there's ever a new edition of the book, the ugly tactics of the divestment mob will have to be included.

Imagine how different things would have been if the topic had been "Should Obamacare Be Repealed?" and the unruly mob had been students demanding that it should be and that no one who disagreed should be allowed to speak.