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Tommy DiMassimo, the Wright State University student with Atlanta ties who in March rushed the stage at an Donald Trump rally in Ohio, has raised $340 from 10 people through a Go Fund Me page for his legal defense as of Wednesday afternoon. His funding goal is $25,000, according to the page. DiMassimo was arrested March 12 after he vaulted a stage barrier and rushed to the back of the stage in a hangar near Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. His Go Fund Me page gets political, saying that he rushed the stage “not to...

This commentary was written by William B. Irvine, professor of philosophy at Wright State University. You might remember that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was President Barack Obama’s pastor before the relationship became politically inconvenient. Although I disagree with many of Wright’s views, I welcome him to our campus. Universities should be a marketplaces of ideas. My colleagues, I think, share this belief. And, yet, in the last decade, Wright State has been curiously one-sided in the speakers it brings to campus. Liberal speakers are routinely invited. We also invite speakers who can be characterized as ultra-liberal, including Wright, and, two...