The controversy at the small liberal arts college in California has sent the Los Angeles Times into emotional hyper-drive, causing the paper to weigh in on the controversy with an editorial and an op-ed criticizing the students and faculty who are doing the protesting. (Also publishing an article on the controversy.)

The title of the Times editorial was "Students Need to Stop Being So Sensitive and Let Madeleine Albright Speak," which was a bit misleading since the students are not threatening to prevent Albright from speaking or threatening to interrupt her talk with protests.

The students are simply expressing their objections to the selection of Albright as their commencement speaker and, at most, simply expressing a preference for someone else.

What's wrong with that?

For their part, the 28 members of the faculty are expressing their objections to Albright's selection by deciding not to participate on stage in the commencement proceedings. But they have all made it clear that they will appear at the commencement proceedings themselves in honor of their students.