<![CDATA[Long ago, when I was a student at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, academic institutions thrived on healthy and passionate dialogue and debate. I remember when the university invited Colonel Oliver North to speak on campus. Although almost every student irrationally despised the man (we were all young liberals in college), we looked forward to attending his talk. We wanted to discuss and debate him, hear his opinions and justifications, and hopefully let him see other points of view while we yearned to glean an understanding of his.]]>