Brendon Madigan at The Carolina Review recounts his run in with the (student) mainstream media:

I evidently struck a nerve with the liberals calling the shots at The Daily Tar Heel (DTH) with my letter to the editor entitled “Savage’s ‘filthy’ dialogue does not belong at UNC.”

I argued that the University should not allow $18,500 of student fees to be used to bring a speaker to campus in Mr. Dan Savage, who has little intellectual value to contribute to the campus community. Employing the typical tactics of the left, the DTH printed five response letters that comprised over one third of the entire editorial page under the headline “Students weigh in on Carolina Union Activities Board inviting Dan Savage to speak on Feb. 2.” Some of the letters even contained personal attacks against me that had nothing to do with the topic of my original letter….

To be fair, $18,500 amounts to a very small amount and not hosting Mr. Savage on campus would not have balanced the University budget, but the event is a good example of the kind of waste that has occurred in recent years at UNC, and I called out those involved. I want to make clear that I am not against Mr. Savage being invited to campus to speak, but rather, I am against paying for the event with  student fees.

I will even go so far as to say that the use of student funds to bring any speaker to campus as ridiculous from the start. After all, we are not here to listen to communists and sex experts, but, rather, we are here to get an education. Why should we drive up the cost of education just so we can host a few lunatics on campus? ….

Bringing a few lunatics to campus is what education is about in many places.

Welcome to the real world.