Raising the voting age is a dumb idea. Though there has been a lot of bad behavior on college campuses, it hasn’t all come from the under-25 set. In fact, you could make a good argument that there has been worse behavior from the over-25s. .

So while at Yale it was students who launched tirades against professors and tried to chase them out of their homes and positions (a Harvard Law Record op-ed called their behavior ”fascism”), it was Yale’s President, Peter Salovey, who rather than demanding that students show respect for free expression and behave with civility, apologized to the students.

Likewise, at the University of Missouri, the worst actors weren’t the students, but faculty and staff members who blocked a student photographer (one of them may face assault charges). The student photographer himself, Tim Tai, conducted himself with grace under pressure, drawing praise from journalists. Another student, Mark Schierbecker, who captured the whole thing on video, also conducted himself calmly and professionally, which is more than you can say for the faculty and staff involved, who included not only a media professor, but also a professor of religious studies, and a student life administrator.