Providence, R.I. — Last year, a student at Brown University established a secret forum with one purpose: to allow students to talk freely about possibly controversial issues. Think of that. At Brown, there is an underground group whose purpose is to allow kids to say what they ought to be free to say above ground.
The group came about in this way: Brown was to host a debate on the issue of campus rape. In one corner was Jessica Valenti, a radical feminist, and in the other was Wendy McElroy, a radical libertarian. It was suspected that McElroy would deny there was a “culture of rape.” And this was intolerable to some students, who protested mightily — in advance, mind you.
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