While I will concede several of Quaker's points about colleges in general, I would also note specifically that Columbia has a history of inviting upstanding citizens like Mahmoud Ahm-a-crazy-lad to address the student body while affording said speakers great respect and defference.
This particular institution of higher learning has devolved into a cesspool of intolerance for anything even slightly conservative. They have booed speakers off the dais when those speakers challenged their preconceived notions of a leftist paradise.
If Columbia and all its staff and student body happened to be swallowed by a sinkhole, it would improve the average IQ of the surrounding area for at least a fifty-mile radius. And it would do at least as much to advance the concept of tolerance.