A university campus is a vast garden fit for planting seeds of knowledge to bear fruit to make the world a better place.

On a university campus all views are needed and welcome, even opinions offered by MSU College Republicans that many might feel are too right-wing to be fit for learned debate.

While it's generally accepted that the vocal majority of the nation's higher education institutions emanate liberal ideologies, knowledge is not and should not be partisan.

A well-rounded education requires students be exposed to as many perspectives as possible on any given topic. A well-rounded education is not exclusive, but inclusive in regard to the possibilities of obtaining information.

That is why it is troubling that members of Wilson Hall's staff tried to stop a College Republicans event Tuesday night.

The registered student organization secured the residence hall venue to host Dan Flynn, who was on hand to discuss the premise of his book "Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness."

Wilson Hall's assistant director said the Republican student group misrepresented itself in seeking permission for the event.

The hall leader said the student government was sold on a presentation titled, "The Irrationality of Anti-Americanism," but fliers that later advertised the event billed it as "Why the Left Hates America."

Erin Belinger, a student affairs graduate student and Wilson's assistant director, said the College Republicans had assured the hall government that Flynn would address patriotism in a nonpartisan manner.

If the Republican student group did mislead Wilson hall representatives to what its event would entail, then it is in the wrong. But so long as the presentation did not compromise the safety or peace of Wilson Hall residents it should have been allowed to go on unobstructed.

Attempts at censorship are not the way to solve disputes, especially at an institution of higher learning.

If the Wilson Hall government did feel deceived by the College Republicans, it should have waited to address the issue at a later date. Perhaps the government could warn the group its access to the hall might be restricted in the future if the situation repeats itself.

But by no means should the hall's student or professional officials have tried to shut down the College Republicans' presentation once it was underway, so long as it didn't present a clear and present danger.

It is a fundamental right of the United States to provide for a marketplace of ideas.

And it is the duty of Americans to partake in their chance to express and play audience in regard to those ideas so that each person can strive to achieve the most informed opinions.

No ideas, be they extremely liberal or extremely conservative, should be silenced. Knowledge is not partisan.