Should Universities be Intellectual ‘Safe Spaces’?

Julie Bindel, Brendan O’Neill, Pam Lowe and Samira Ahmed discuss university censorship.
There is a growing trend among students for self-imposed censorship within university spaces. Various speakers have been ‘no platformed’ or banned by student groups, students with ‘unacceptable’ viewpoints have been censured and silenced, student events have been cancelled because of the threat of disruptive protests by those who hold different viewpoints.
Should universities give in to their students and make sure that campuses are free from intellectual challenge both inside and outside the lecture hall or do the academic faculty have a duty to students to “enrich their minds with […] knowledge”?

As universities are more and more run as businesses and students are paying for their education, is it perhaps time to ask ‘is the customer always right?’