Free speech was a thing at Vassar, once

It saddened me to read William A. Jacobson’s column “My pro-free speech views made me the target of a smear campaign at Vassar College.” This is not the Vassar College I once knew.

When I was a student there, The Vassar Spectator was founded on campus. I helped get this literary journal running because I thought it essential to have a variety of perspectives represented within the campus. There was once similar enthusiasm expressed by many there for the intellectual diversity it helped foster.

Paul E. Greenberg

Brookline, Mass.