In the wake of the controversy surrounding ASWU President Tersa Almaw and her deciding vote to not invite Ben Shapiro to campus, a couple important things seem to be getting missed.

To have been a queer student on Whitworth University’s campus for the past two weeks is to have been surrounded by the debate over whether or not Ben Shapiro should be allowed to come to campus.

While I have been pleased to find that many faculty and staff at Whitworth have chosen to support the preservation of freedom of speech on campus, ASWU has abandoned this constitutional value and made the fatal leap toward censorship.