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Isn't it supposed to be the professors on a university campus who provoke free and open debate? During a recent incident at Washington State University, it was students who were doing that. And it was two faculty members who displayed shameful disregard for their freedom to do so. On Nov. 2, the students, members of WSU College Republicans, erected a 24-foot chain-link fence in the heart of campus as a show of support for congressional action to build more fencing at the United States' border with Mexico. Whatever you think of a bigger border fence -- and this page doesn't think much of it -- the demonstration was hardly out of line on a campus that has seen far more raucous displays of free speech. That apparently did not matter to two professors in the school's comparative ethnic studies department. One, David Leonard, demanded the student identification number of a demonstrator who was videotaping the event. And another, John Streamas, hurled a vulgar insult at at least one of the demonstrators -- Jim Fisher/Lewiston Tribune.

Story: WSU fence drives controversy: College Republicans say it's a symbol; critics call it racist/Shawn Vestal, Spokesman-Review

Question: Should any action be taken against the two professors who tried to muzzle the WSU College Republicans demonstration?

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