<p>I think the problem was that Columbia invited the guy in the first place. Since it wouldn’t be palatable for some of us (me included) to have such a guy speak at the university we attend without being disrespectful, we shouldn’t have invited him to a serious academic discussion in the first place since we knew it wasn’t going to happen. </p>
<p>As to which schools I’d consider liberal, I’d say any school that isn’t conservative. I know that strictly speaking that is a bad definition, since it is pretty easy to pick out the conservative schools it’s a relatively safe assumption (seeing as most people our age are liberal) that a school that isn’t conservative is at least somewhat left of center.</p>