...Topping the list is a recent event held by Georgia Tech's African American Student Union (AASU). Organizers of the event, called a "Free Speech Forum," invited me and my colleague (and co-plaintiff in our successful challenge to Tech's speech codes), Ruth Malhotra, to participate. Even though AASU is classified as a "cultural" group, they often conduct politically leftist activities and have been hostile towards the College Republicans and other conservative organizations in the past. Ruth and I agreed to participate in this forum on freedom of speech because we believed that they were genuinely interested in hearing our perspective. But then came warnings prior to the event suggesting that we were walking into a minefield: an inflammatory advertisement of the panel, sudden changes to the panel members and number of panelists, and most disturbingly, their last-minute refusal to allow me to sit on the panel.

As soon as the meeting commenced, everything proceeded downhill rather quickly...