Fifty-eight days since a mob of Columbia students stormed the stage and shut down the speech of a guest invited by the school’s College Republicans, and the university is still silent on the results of its alleged investigation.

A reader e-mailed me with an observation that the wheels of justice don’t always turn so slowly at Columbia; in fact, just a month before the near-riot that required Minuteman speaker Jim Gilchrist to be whisked off the stage by security, the university very quickly suspended the entire men’s hockey team for a much less threatening offense: posting recruitment flyers that contained the phrase “don’t be a pussy.”

Free speech is very clearly not alive and well at Columbia.

Update: Christopher Edele, the reader who pointed out the hockey team suspension, followed up with a note that negative attention ultimately caused Columbia to reinstate the hockey team. However, it is still telling that Columbia’s first inclination is to silence unpopular speech, and to stay silent after student goons did the same.