The president of California State University Los Angeles canceled a speech by controversial conservative writer and commentator Ben Shapiro after students and faculty objected to Shapiro's views. The president said Shapiro could appear later, but only alongside others with opposing views -- a requirement many advocates for academic freedom and free speech view as antithetical to those values. Shapiro was scheduled to appear Thursday at an event called “When Diversity Becomes a Problem,” where he would discuss “how trigger warnings, ‘diversity,’ microaggressions, Black Lives Matter, safe spaces and #concernedstudents1950 pose a threat to freedom of speech on college campuses.”

February 24, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed