Holy Cross prof David Lewis Schaeffer reports from the frontlines, on NRO today:

Holy Cross College is a premier American institution of higher learning. It has an outstanding faculty and highly motivated student body. Unfortunately, over the last two years, the college has suffered from the effort of a determinedly partisan administration to stifle open debate on campus. The culmination of the administration’s endeavor in this direction — which has included attempting to close down the college’s alternative conservative student newspaper, the Fenwick Review; and the removal by the president, Michael McFarland, S.J., of the faculty adviser (me) to the college’s public-affairs lecture committee on the ground that the committee had been inviting too many Republicans — was a systematic effort to uproot from the campus the so-called “climate of hate,” understood as any mockery of the college’s “diversity” (i.e., race- and ethnicity-based) programming, or of the gay-rights agenda. Alarmingly, the campaign appears to have inspired at least one student towards an act of arson. Near the end of the 2005-06 academic year, during which the “Hate Not Here” campaign reached its peak, some (unidentified) student set fire during the night to a copy of the Fenwick Review outside the dormitory door of the Review’s editor, Shawn Sheehy.