When conservative firebrand (and former leftist firebrand) David Horowitz sent a paid advertisement listing "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks Is a Bad Idea for Blacks—and Racist Too," most college newspapers refused to run the ad. Of the few who did, editors at Berkeley's school newspaper followed up with a front-page editorial apology. At Brown, whose editors published the ad without apology, 4,000 copies of the student newspaper containing the ad were stolen. As one professor observed, "If something is free you can take as many copies as you want." Another professor of African-American studies said: "I have talked to students who told me that they cannot perform basic functions like sleeping or walking because of the ad."

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