Columbia’s Capitulation

Universities exist to promote the discovery, preservation, and transmission of knowledge. While they can help make to make a society virtuous, prosperous, and free, they do so by pursing their mission, which is truth. They can offer their service to government, but it is not their purpose to serve it. If the civil power makes demands of them that are incompatible with their commitment to the freedom of thought, they are bound in conscience to refuse.