It took a historic massacre of Jews for the Washington Post to decide colleges shouldn’t opine on world events

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Ghitis: The role of colleges and universities is not to tell students what to think, much less what the administration thinks.

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Becket Adams: Where has the Washington Post been for the past 20 to 30 years? Conservative speakers are routinely chased off campuses, sometimes literally the day angry mobs, and physically barred from delivering pre-scheduled addresses.

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