Summary: Oberlin College students (and some administrators) behaved badly. The local business they targeted responded with a lawsuit for damages. The court agrees, ordering Oberlin to pay $11 million.
The down-the-road response? Colleges everywhere will take note, and worried number-cruncher administrators will urge further restrictions on campus speech and action.
So:
(1) Bad ideology on campus has already led to indoctrination, self-silencings, and outright censorship. Education suffers.
(2) The empowered bad ideologists take it to the streets off campus. The off-campus system smacks them down with a financial penalty. Administrators respond with further speech and action restrictions on campus. Education suffers.
The lesson: If universities cannot heal themselves through liberal-education means, they will be forced to by illiberal means — and cease being institutions of liberal education.