IU undergrad and author of Twilight of the Idols Nick Blesch has some interesting comments on the administration's decision to uphold business professor Eric Rasmusen's right to free expression after he posted comments on his website that struck members of the campus community as homophobic and intolerant. Blesch points to an Indiana Daily Student editorial written by Charlie Nelms, Vice President of Student Development and Diversity, defending Rasmusen in terms that glowingly evoke the principles of free speech and open, unfettered inquiry:

T]he University's decision to allow him to continue to publish his remarks while a review is underway is consistent with what it means to live in a democratic society.
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In a large, diverse community of learners, each of us must be allowed to speak, and each of us must in turn take responsibility for our own words and actions.
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The idea of freedom of expression is an easy one to state, but harder to live: we must support the right of those we oppose the most to say what they wish. But we must also speak out for the causes of universal and equal human rights. In the end, truth will win the day.