The Wall Street Journal:  For Argument’s Sake, by Mark Oppenheimer:

May I recommend the YouTube footage of William Shanahan III dropping his trousers, albeit with his boxer shorts on, to Shanara Rose Reid-Brinkley?

The short Web video of the recently fired debate coach at Fort Hays State University, in Kansas, faux-mooning a University of Pittsburgh professor is spectacular theater. The aging, pony-tailed hippie (Mr. Shanahan) and the angry black woman (Ms. Reid-Brinkley) are facing off over whether Mr. Shanahan’s debaters are racist for asking that Ms. Reid-Brinkley be removed from a debate’s judging panel. As both drop f-bombs in front of the debaters, you can’t help wondering whether conservatives are right about the looniness of campus liberalism.

It used to be that high-school and college debates mirrored, in a salutary way, political debates. In school, young men and women learned to research topics and then debate their rivals, using all the tools of oratory, including sound reasoning and witty flourishes. But scholastic debate today is very different, and its sorry state has consequences for the health of the republic.

For more, see the Chronicle of Higher Education and CBS News.