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UC Berkeley student group cancels 'Free Speech Week' event
« on: October 17, 2017, 03:03:03 am »
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UC Berkeley student group cancels 'Free Speech Week' event
Fox News

Confusion swirled over the fate of University of Berkeley’s controversial “Free Speech Week” after the student group that organized it canceled the event but a featured speaker insisted it was still being held.

UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said Saturday that the Berkeley Patriot student organization told university administrators that the four-day event scheduled to start Sunday had been canceled.

But the event's co-organizer, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, said in a Facebook post that while the student group may have pulled out, he and other speakers had not.

Read more at: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/23/uc-berkeley-says-free-speech-week-event-canceled.html

I hardly would want to use Milo as a poster boy for free speech but nonetheless,  we do have a right to such. I wonder who the other speakers might be? Probably way out there as well.  Just my opinion.