A critique of "free speech" in the university

I offer some thoughts over here. One matter that provoked this post concerns the question of constitutional law creep. The frameworks of law, especially constitutional law, seem to be spilling over as guides in areas of human life where they do not belong. Perhaps because they are the only ones that are taken to be authoritative any longer. That is certainly the case for free speech in the university context. It would also be true if we instead used a First Amendment associational model. Universities really are not, per my friend Paul Horwitz, "First Amendment institutions" (to take nothing away from Paul's superb book). They are institutions precedent to--and different in kind, purpose, and function than--the American Constitution.