1. An end to denials of free speech. This includes a change in Columbia's policy of charging the victims of disruptive demonstrations, not the perpetrators, for the costs of extra security, which has provided a convenient excuse to keep conservative events off campus.

2. An end to intimidation of conservative students and faculty. No negative grading of students who express conservative ideas. No abuse of the civil rights and sexual harrassment laws to punish those who question leftist dogma.

3. A public commitment to the idea that a university should embrace all respectable political points of view, and not just be a shill for the left wing of the Democratic party. The university should stand for authentic democracy, not the one-party state. The prestige and resources of the university must not be used one-sidedly to promote only left-wing causes as they are now. This includes the funding of research, the sponsorship of conferences, and the hiring of faculty.

4. A written and legally-binding pledge to treat conservative student, faculty, and outside groups equally with their liberal counterparts. The establishment of an ideologically balanced committee of the University Senate to investigate abuses.

5. A written and legally-binding pledge not to allow liberal bias to influence faculty hiring and tenure decisions.

6. An end to "hollowing out" of the Core Curriculum by teachers who fail to make their students actually read the texts or who deliberately seek to undermine the texts by ignoring them in favor of irrelevant topics. An end to teachers who covertly or overtly refuse to teach the conservative authors on the syllabus.

7. An end to racial preferences in admissions and hiring.

8.The abolition of racially discriminatory organizations such as the Black Students Organization.

9. The appointment of conservatives to the monolithically liberal Board of Trustees.

10. An end to the administration's lies and misleading statements about these issues. They have denied their biased conduct, offered implausible and disingenuous excuses, and refused legitimate requests for information. In the long run, this undermines public confidence in the University as a whole, and thus harms all who care about Columbia.

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