Princeton Prof Thinks Free Speech Is in Serious Trouble — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

Princeton Prof Thinks Free Speech Is in Serious Trouble — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal:
"After months of clashes with angry students, the university decided that the young professor it hired had to go.
From the day of his first class on campus, protesters had disrupted his lectures.
Police had to clear angry students out of the room each day. 
Officials feared for the professor’s safety and appealed to students to respect his freedom to teach, but the students responded with a manifesto declaring that the offending professor must be dismissed and “a new university of a political nature built up.” 
They said they were entitled to the teachers they wanted, not someone like him.
Some of the faculty defended the professor and complained about students who cared more about politics than learning.
Many others, however, said that life at the university would be much easier if, in the future, the administration would more carefully evaluate the views and identity of prospective faculty members before hiring.
Better to screen out anyone who would upset student sensibilities than continue to have turmoil on campus.
The administration finally caved in to the pressure, first suspending the professor’s class and then terminating his employment.
The students had won; the university was cleansed and the administration had been taught a lesson.
All of that sounds like a story from some American campus in the 21st century, but in fact, it is a description of the clashes between pro-Nazi students and the University of Breslau in 1933 following the appointment of a Jew, Ernst Cohn, to teach law. 
It is disquieting that more than 80 years later, we find exactly the same ideas about education and the same eagerness to resort to disruption among some American students as among young enthusiasts for National Socialism back then..."
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