Students at Columbia stopped from striking

"At Columbia, where the students just concluded a weeklong strike in tandem with their brethren at Yale, a previously undisclosed internal memo (just obtained by The Nation--go to the nation website noted below) reveals that the administration has been flirting with union-busting tactics that go well beyond anything an academic institution should contemplate. The memo ,dated February 16, 2005, is signed by none other than Alan Brinkley, a well-known liberal historian who is now serving as Columbia's provost. Brinkley has gone out of his way to assure outside observers, including New York State Senator David Paterson, that "students are free to join or advocate a union, and even to strike, without retribution." Yet his February 16 memo, addressed to seventeen deans, professors and university leaders, lists retaliatory actions that might be taken against students "to discourage" them from striking. Several of these measures would likely rise to the level of illegality if graduate student employees were covered under the National Labor Relations Act."
The freedom of speech I knew as a young adult is gone. There is no FREEDOM OF SPEECH ANYMORE IN THIS COUNTRY!