Given Oregon's long history of racism I applaud anyone who works to overcome the lingering effects of that scourge upon our society, and Mark Harris has certainly had an innovative approach. 

 In a February 18th column he instructed his Eugene Weekly readers "Negro History Week started as an internal Negro Community Celebration, remembering the birthday and the difference between Frederick Douglass (my personal favorite Republican) and Lincoln (my least favorite Republican who edges out Ben Carson and Donald Trump)."
Being an ardent  supporter of both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln as well as a staunch critic of both Donald Trump and Ben Carson, I found his proposition quite, well, uh, "interesting."  

While I don't agree with his Lincoln-Trump comparison, Mr. Harris is correct that there are reasons for, as well as against, a campus BRT.  The key is that it be handled by competent, objective professionals who are sensitive to both  issues of  academic free speech and racism.