Members of a student group calling for more ideological diversity among speakers at Brown University analyzed past speakers "based on campaign contributions, social media statements and career histories," according to a column by a sophomore Eugenie Boury.
Of the 237 people who spoke at the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, 94.5 percent were left of center, while 5.5 percent leaned right, she writes.
Richard Sander, a law professor at UCLA, came up with what he calls "mismatch theory," arguing that affirmative action hurts minorities by elevating them into academic environments that are too competitive for their skills.
Sander has been invited to speak at Middlebury College in Vermont, where rioters last March besieged sociologist Charles Murray and injured a Middlebury professor who had just debated him.
