nobel prize winning scientists who was in many ways the father of the computer revolution was invited by yale students to defend his absornt views that blacks were genetically inferior who should be involuntarily sterilized. he was debate roy innis, the african-american leader of the racial equality. the debate was innis idea. a campus uproar ensued and the event was canceled. it was rescheduled with another opponent and that was disrupted. the difference from today is that yale recognized it had failed in not ensuring that shockley could speak. it commissioned a report on free speech that remains a landmark debate. it decided college cannot make its primary value the fostering of friendship, harmony or mutual respe