Instead, Rupp authorized cops to shrink the Faculty House crowd by banning everyone without Columbia I.D. which meant turning away non-Columbia invitees, many of whom had paid for tickets. Concluding that the administration was just jerking them around, AIA said no thanks, and moved the talks to Morningside Drive. Faculty House's director responded that his building is a public facility and had rules that forbade screening based on a renter's philosophy. The demonstrators knew that censorship had just been imposed. They were entirely dislocated.
Freedom of speech has no value.
The modern university happily complies. Columbia's action using safety concerns to squelch unwanted speech is a sophisticated version of the heckler's veto. Great universities don't behave this way. If Columbia wants to retrieve its honor, it should make sure that the conservative speakers are invited back.