An open letter to Dr Michael Spence, Vice Chancellor, Sydney University. Yesterday’s report that students at your University have been denied access to facilities to show and discuss the Cassie Jay documentary, The Red Pill, is of great concern. When John Henry Newman wrote The Idea of a University in 1852, he envisaged a community in which students were taught "to think and to reason and to compare and to discriminate and to analyse". He was of the view that universities