UNC Morehead scholar arrested in Tancredo protest

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UNC student charged in Tancredo protest

Campus police have charged a UNC-Chapel Hill student with disorderly conduct in connection with last week's protest that shut down a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo.

Morehead scholar Haley Koch was arrested outside a classroom Thursday. She was released on $1,000 bail.

She joins six other people who were arrested Wednesday during a speech by another conservative former congressman, Virgil Goode of Virginia. None of those arrested Wednesday was a UNC-CH student or employee, the university said in a news release.

Six protesters arrested at UNC event

Six protesters were arrested at UNC-Chapel Hill tonight near the end of a talk by former Congressman Virgil Goode.

Goode was on campus at the invitation of Youth for Western Civilization, the same student group that last week brought former Congressman Tom Tancredo to campus. Tancredo's planned talk on tuition benefits for illegal immigrants ended abruptly in the midst of a student protest subsequently condemned by university leaders.

Tonight, six people were charged with disorderly conduct, arrested at the end of about a 90-minute discussion at the campus student union. Goode spoke to about 150 people and took questions, according to a university news release.

Protesters arrested at Governor's Mansion

Six environmental activists were arrested Saturday in a display of civil disobedience at the Governor's Mansion. They were protesting Duke Energy's controversial plan to build the coal-fired Cliffside power unit in Rutherford County.

State Capitol Police charged each of the six with trespass, said Pete MacDowell, one of the event's organizers.

MacDowell identified those arrested as: Dick Paddock of Chapel Hill; Bruce Avram Friedman of Sylva; Jean Larson of Asheville, Keval Kaur Khalsa of Durham; John Allen, a UNC-Chapel Hill student from Winston-Salem, and Jim Warren of Efland.

UNC-CH protesters to face judge

Seven young activists will go to court today on charges they disrupted two former congressmen who spoke about immigration at UNC-Chapel Hill last spring.

Only one of the protesters is a UNC-CH student, Morehead-Cain scholar Haley Koch, a senior accused of holding a banner in front of another student who was introducing former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican known for his anti-immigrant stance. The others were banned from campus for two years after their arrest a week later at former U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode's speech.

Students for a Democratic Society rallied about 30 protesters inside the building where Tancredo spoke, and some shouted him down. YouTube videos and media coverage sparked critics to call the protesters' actions undemocratic, but some witnesses say campus police inflamed the situation.

UNC activists file complaint

Three local activists complained to a police accreditation committee Monday that campus public-safety officers unnecessarily pepper-sprayed them in the eyes during a protest of a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo last month.

Members of the UNC-Chapel Hill Protesters Defense Committee also filed a formal complaint against the public safety department, claiming police action during and after the protest was "unnecessary and politically motivated with the intent of spreading a chill across campus."

"I shouldn't be concerned about my safety for going there and chanting," said student Anthony Magglione, who said he sought medical treatment from an EMT on the scene and from a campus health clinic the next day. "I was blinded, and I couldn't see anything."