Vigilante justice triumphs at Northwestern

Several readers have sent this report (also this) according to which Peter Ludlow has had to withdraw from the classroom in the wake of various student protests demanding his firing.  Northwestern disciplined Ludlow based on its findings, and it is quite debatable whether the punishment was serious enough.  But that he should be driven from the classroom because of this debate?  That seems an unhappy outcome for a university.  Or as one correspondent put it:  "not exactly a victory for due process and/or academic freedom."  (This correspondent, a senior philosopher with tenure elsewhere, did not want to be quoted by name making this mild observation.)