It is a victory for these protesters as NYU pushes the event into less visible spaces on some irrelevant date. The Federalist Society has organized an alternative event where free speech can be exercised outside of the NYU campus. In this case, they would not allow a one-hour speech by a speaker on the anniversary of a massacre. NYU had a clear choice here: They could stand with free speech or yield to those opposed to its exercise on campus. They failed the most fundamental test of higher education in defending intellectual diversity and free speech.