This is nothing more than mob rule.  Get enough people to buy into an idea, yell and scream about, spout off about some intellectual clap-trap and, most of all, yell down any opposition to your ideas and the university will bend to your wishes.
Free speech is one of the most important rights that are guaranteed by our constitution.  Furthermore, it means that people whose ideas you don't like have the right to express them.
The last century saw what happened to countries where there was no fee speech - those countries were generally failures and had to erect barriers to keep people from leaving.