Thanks for reply.
OP indicates student organizers.
"It was because three student organizers came onstage and politely told me they were going in a different direction with the next 30 minutes of my remaining time after deciding my material was offensive."
If student organizers are on state payroll for example, or somehow acting under state gov. authority when they stopped the speaker, and I doubt this for private college, then there are 14A problems.
> If student organizers are on state payroll for example, or somehow acting under state gov. authority when they stopped the speaker, and I doubt this for private college, then there are 14A problems.
ANY federal dollars touching the university is enough. Grants, loans, whatever - and there’s no way that the Columbia student body doesn’t have tons of federal loans and grants.
The student organizers, organizing under the umbrella of the university, are acting on delegated university authority. And the university is subject to civil rights lawsuits appropriate for public institutions based on its acceptance of federal dollars.
The reason why this is the case is that if it weren’t, the federal government could violate any restriction simply by farming out the job to an allegedly private institution. Institutions cease to be strictly private the moment a single government penny enters their coffers.