JUST CONCENTRATE ON THE ACADEMICS, MARQUETTE.

I've already noted how at graduation time, officialdom at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee take a few digs at their basketball famous neighbor to the southwest.  Maybe coming up with a substantive academic profile will prove more productive than tone-policing the incoming students.  It wasn't enough for the Student Affairs types to unleash the Holy Inquisition on Samantha Pfefferle for daring to post a video that featured a Trump flag.  Then, John "Marquette Warrior" McAdams reports, the Student Affairs types also might have launched an investigation of possible conduct unbecoming by Erin Cook. the incoming student who thought flagging Incorrect Tik-Tokking was what ought to be done.  More recently, Marquette's College Republicans decided to thank their Administrative Overlords for doing the right thing.  Problem is, as Professor McAdams noted, it wasn't because the scales fell from anybody's eyes.  They had to be shot off.

This is quite a good statement, and “schoolyard bullies” is the perfect description of the mob that wanted Pfefferle cancelled.

We, however, would not have “commended” Marquette. Marquette did not really come down on the side of free expression and intellectual diversity. Marquette backed off because Pfefferle was willing to fight, and the issue had gotten considerable attention.

There is no reason to believe that the basic instinct of university bureaucrats — to pander to politically correct leftists — has changed at all.

But statements like this one — as well as the massive public relations fiasco Marquette brought on itself — will hopefully temper the expression of that instinct.

It's simply necessary to keep calling out the manifestations of so-called liberating tolerance, wherever and whenever they take place.