BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT. The question.

When did social conscience become an acceptable substitute for actual intelligence?

The answer.

Instead of allowing students to challenge each other's conceptions of race and volunteerism, Boston College has opted to "protect" them through censorship, lest they draw their own conclusions about the merits and cultural, social and political ramifications of service trips. Instead of having students educate each other through the dialogue this flyer inevitably would have started, Dean Chebator has decided that only Boston College administrators are fit to be the arbiters of what the flyer's content really means. In Chebator's "educational" process, flyers need to be officially "addressed" and students need to be officially "educated," with all substantive pedagogical direction being issued from the top down as an imperative command to be followed, not questioned.

It's faculty complicity in progressive intolerance that encourages students to substitute their sense of grievance for proper inquiry.