EVERYBODY’S EMAILING to ask what I think about this scandal involving the UT Issues Committee, political bias, death threats, and so on. Actually, I don’t know anything that hasn’t been in the papers — I don’t have a lot to do with undergraduate activities. Though I haven’t done much recently, I used to deal with them fairly often and found them OK. It’s probably true that their offerings lean left — though the only one I’ve noticed lately involved Tucker Carlson — but I don’t know the extent to which that reflects the offerings. But they do seem to have rejected reasonable requests for non-lefty speakers. Surely they could bring Jonah Goldberg or Andrew Sullivan to campus. And I’d like that.

The death threats and racial slurs aimed at conservative students, if true, are obviously beyond the pale. But I don’t know any more about that stuff than you do, once you read the stories. In general, Tennessee has been largely free from the kind of political correctness that marked other campuses. When our recent — and now fired and under criminal investigation — President came in, we seemed to see more of that (read this post for an example, and an update here — but read this too). President Shumaker is gone now, and not much lamented, and perhaps the University will ensure that political correctness is not part of his legacy.

Here’s the UT College Republicans’ website, where they’re posting regularly on the story.