by Richard Delgado

About the author: Richard Delgado is the Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law. He is the coeditor of The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography and the coauthor of Must We Defend Nazis? Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment.

At the University of Wisconsin, a fraternity sponsored an annual “Fiji Island” party, as part of which it erected a 15-foot plywood caricature of a black man with a bone through his nose. At Dartmouth College, four members of a conservative campus newspaper compared the university president, James O. Freedman, a Jew, with Adolf Hitler. At the University of California at Berkeley, fraternity members shouted obscenities and racial slurs at a group of black students; later, a...