Last week, a planned talk by Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled at the University of California, Berkeley after a protest turned violent, resulting in arson and property damage. As an alumnus of the university, I wrote about the incident last week, pledging not to donate to my alma mater until free speech was better tolerated on campus.

I must admit that my resolve was slightly tested after a few friends and college classmates commented that perhaps I was being too harsh, blaming students and the administration for a violent incident that was out of their hands. Then, I opened the opinion section of the Daily Californian, Berkeley’s student newspaper, this week.