if a student wants to hear kid rock or robert rice or michael moore universities should have the courage of their convictions and allow students to hear and evaluate their arguments to matter how badly flawed or morally bankrupt they believe those arguments ultimately are. the goal of bringing such figures to campus should be to enlighten and not merely to provoke. student should want to hear from the vast representative of serious ideas that are worth their time and attention. no doubt students will have a somewhat different ideas about what is worth their time and attention that i do for example they should take seriously their own responsibility by seeking knowledge and not just pushing boundaries. when we were making decisions about who to invite to campus to speak the goal should neither be to stack the deck with our closest allies in order to struggle in the most extreme topics but the goal should be to make available to campus trinity thoughtful representatives of serious ideas. to break free speech is easy if it never seems challenging. it's easy to listen to pleasing ideas and a