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At my own alma mater (St. Michael's College), an atmosphere dedicated to academic freedom persists. (I hasten to add that this was even more pronounced when I attended in the '70s and '80s.) 

One example: In the early 2000s, the principal-appointed Advisory Committee on Sexual Orientation openly criticized a lecture on marriage by Peter Kreeft in which he appeared to analogize homosexuality to alcoholism. Kreeft had been invited by the more conservative Students for Life. The Committee "condemned" the lecture--both in terms of its stated hypotheses regarding sexual orientation and the fact that the talk was a "counter-witness" to the College's own statement on inclusivity. This in turn generated a response by about a dozen faculty who objected to the objections by the Committee. The principal responded in the college mouthpiece that academic freedom must be respected. So it was a wash--Kreeft spoke, but so did his detractors and the detractors of the detractors.