Yale in Singapore runs into snag

The issue of adopting/adapting North American educational practices in other cultural contexts is beautifully demonstrated in the piece on Yale University's Singapore campus.  As a compromise to the government, a speaker's corner was created where students could express dissent, rather than allowing protests of the sort that sometimes occur at Yale in the U.S.A. and many other campuses.  The question becomes, in order for a North American campus to establish a branch, should it come in exactly the form of the original or should/could it be modified in the local context?  If modified, is there some fundamental aspect of the institution that is then compromised?