Notably, one of the students involved in the attacks insisted that only the government is prevented from trashing such tables and, as a private citizen, she had a right to do so.
The sense of license to do so has been drilled into these students by both educational and political figures. This is a face of rage.
The question is now what the university is going to do about it. The solution should be obvious: the student should be immediately suspended or expelled.
This type of political violence or vandalism should be anathema to an institution of higher education. This is not free speech, as the student claims. It is the denial of the exercise of free speech. The student has every right to set up her own table or protest the YAF. What she is not allowed to do is attack other students or their displays.
