Less fireworks at UNC speech this time

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Protest stops Tancredo's UNC speech

UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants.

Hundreds of protesters converged on Bingham Hall, shouting profanities and accusations of racism while Tancredo and the student who introduced him tried to speak. Minutes into the speech, a protester pounded a window of the classroom until the glass shattered, prompting Tancredo to flee and campus police to shut down the event.

Tancredo was brought to campus by a UNC chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, a national organization of students who oppose mass immigration, multiculturalism and affirmative action.

Furious protest stops Tancredo's UNC speech

UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants.

Hundreds of protesters converged on Bingham Hall, shouting profanities and accusations of racism while Tancredo and the student who introduced him tried to speak. Minutes into the speech, a protester pounded a window of the classroom until the glass shattered, prompting Tancredo to flee and campus police to shut down the event.

Tancredo was brought to campus by a UNC chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, a national organization of students who oppose mass immigration, multiculturalism and affirmative action.

UNC leaders apologize for speech fiasco

In 1963, state legislators silenced communist speech on campus. Forty-six years later, protesting students silenced a conservative former congressman because of his views on immigration.

The result is the same: a black mark on UNC-Chapel Hill's reputation for academic freedom.

On Wednesday, UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp and UNC System President Erskine Bowles both telephoned former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado to apologize after student protesters shouted Tancredo down as he tried to give a speech. Students smashed a window a few feet from where he stood and blocked his face with a banner that said, "No One Is Illegal."

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.

UNC speech, II

They seem to be learning over at UNC-Chapel Hill. It's good news of a sort that of the six people arrested for trying to disrupt a talk by former Virginia congressman Virgil Goode on Wednesday night, not one was a UNC student.

Apparently, those most committed to denying an invited speaker's right to speak are off-campus radicals. Students, however much they might have disliked Goode's message -- he's strongly opposed to affirmative action, multiculturalism and illegal immigration -- either kept it civil, kept it outside the auditorium or kept away entirely.

And campus administrators showed more smarts this time than they did before and during the widely publicized, sadly disrupted April 14 talk on immigration by former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado (one student was charged this week in connection with that event). They had better procedures in place, including a clear warning inside the auditorium of the consequences of disrupting the speaker, who had been invited by the same student group that brought