From the Columbia Spectator:

Christien Tompkins, CC ’08, co-chair of the United Students of Color Council and member of Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge, compared the invitation of Ahmadinejad to that of Jim Gilchrist and said he was “disappointed” in Bollinger’s leadership for going out of his way to denounce the Iranian head of state and but not the “racist” founder of the Minutemen Project. Bollinger replied that issuing statements about all potentially controversial speakers would produce a “chilling effect,” harming the free flow of ideas on campus.