The Editorial Board asserts that the University made an erroneous and deceptive decision by canceling the PETA debate a day before it was scheduled to occur.
Among the following reasons the Editorial Board provides:
1. Although the speaker, Bruce Friedrich, vice president of PETA, did interrupt the 2004 Commencement ceremony by charging down the steps of Low and lashing out against Columbia's mistreatment of animals, he is not a security concern.