Sometimes it’s difficult to tell whether college rowdies are acting through sheer ignorance, offensively unearned self-righteousness, a particularly benighted form of nihilism, or some combination of those defects. Regardless, when they “act out” in ways showing embarrassingly delayed early adolescence, they deserve to be spanked and sent back to their parents’ homes without supper.

The most recent two examples of collegians acting doltishly come from Hofstra University, where ruffians demand that a statue of Thomas Jefferson be torn down, and from Oregon State, where gender-bender organizations object to allowing a student-veteran group access to a student lounge.