Today, student protesters at Northwestern University issued their demands for change. The students say that they feel “unsafe and unheard” but won’t tolerate that any longer.

Same old stuff, such as more “diversity” among the faculty and administration. That means, of course, creating more positions that can only be filled by members of certain racial and ethnic groups. A racial spoils system is taking root. The students also demand that Northwestern admit more students whose ancestry puts them in one of those groups. How badly do you think a student or professor would be treated who argued that universities should admit students based on their level of academic ability and interest, not on the happenstance of ancestry? Tarred and feathered comes to mind.