Northern Kentucky University President James Votruba did the right thing. Simply doing what you're supposed to do usually isn't grounds for confetti, jumping up and down, baloons dropping from the ceiling, and a marching band. But Votruba deserves all this because people in his position generally don't do the right thing on freedom of speech. He did.

Feminist professor Sally Jacobsen has indoctrinated her last student at NKU. Last week, she generated headlines by leading her class in the destruction of a student pro-life display. An Associated Press account claims that it is "unclear whether Jacobsen took part in dismantling the display," but it is quite clear from a photograph that she did just that. Votruba put her on leave from the university, and she will retire, as planned, at the conclusion of the semester. It's still a scandal that a university professor thought it appropriate to trash a display of political expression, and use her students to do so. But it's a scandal that the university community, and its leader, recognize as a scandal.

"We are proud that, as a campus, we are not the captive of one ideology or point of view," Votruba wrote in an email disseminated in the campus community. "At their best, universities are not places of comfortable conformity. They are places where ideas collide as students and faculty search for deeper understandings and perspectives." NKU's president continued that Jacobsen's "recent lapse of judgment was severe and, for a period of time, has caused some in our community and beyond to question whether Northern Kentucky University upholds freedom of expression. My answer to this question is an unequivocal yes."

Isn't there a university president job-opening at Harvard?

While it's too bad this "lady" wasn't fired and forced to forfeit her retirement, it does give you hope when the president of ANY university actually drives home the fact that constitutional protections aren't applicable solely to Liberals!

Harvard is lost. They just threw out a President who was considered philosophically and politically one of them. Problem was, he wasn’t radical enough for them.