Make Intimidation Not War!

Columbia students protesting against intimidation by faculty, debated anti-War students last night. Strangely, the anti-War representatives take a pro-intimidation position. This article in the Columbia Spectator makes it clear that if the students who attended the debate are representative, Columbia is doing a lousy job training the next generation of academics in reasoned discourse.
Columbia Spectator - Incendiary Accusations at MEALAC Debate

The audience seemed primarily sympathetic to the Columbia Antiwar Coalition’s point of view, directing most of its tough questions toward CAF. As the CAF students spoke, members of the audience yelled “Liar!” and “Shame on you!”

“You are the real terrorists,” shouted one audience member at the CAF debaters during her chance to speak.

Note that the 'real terrorists' are the students who would like to be able to express their view in the classroom, or publish letters in the university magazine, without being thrown out of the classroom, or threatened with expulsion.

As Patrick Moynahan warned the UN back in 1975 during the debate preceding adoption of the 'Zionism is Racism' resolution, you misuse a word too flagrantly and it loses its moral impact. Thanks to idiots like those above, the word 'terrorist' seems to be going the way of the word 'racist'.