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03-08-2003, 10:29 PM
<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'><span style='color:0099FF' >My Experiences at Michigan State
By Dan Flynn
FrontPageMagazine.co m | March 7, 2003
Last week, overseers of Michigan State University’s Wilson Hall announced that they had cancelled my lecture and ordered the event’s organizers and myself to leave the meeting hall reserved for the talk. We refused, offering the campus community a lesson in how to deal with anti-free-speech bullies: stand up to them.
Upon arriving in Lansing on February 25, signs of trouble were evident. My student hosts advised me that, curiously, a fire-drill had been scheduled during my lecture, requiring me to cut the talk short. Later, rumors began circulating that a left-wing activist was attempting to prevent the talk from ever taking place.
These rumors were confirmed true shortly after my arrival in MSU’s Wilson Hall. Erin Belinger, a graduate student and the assistant director of Wilson Hall, announced that she was calling off the event and ordered us to leave. The microphone already had been taken away.
I told Belinger that I wouldn’t check-in my right to speak freely at the door to any university (http://www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6 507)</span></span> *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/yelclap.gif
By Dan Flynn
FrontPageMagazine.co m | March 7, 2003
Last week, overseers of Michigan State University’s Wilson Hall announced that they had cancelled my lecture and ordered the event’s organizers and myself to leave the meeting hall reserved for the talk. We refused, offering the campus community a lesson in how to deal with anti-free-speech bullies: stand up to them.
Upon arriving in Lansing on February 25, signs of trouble were evident. My student hosts advised me that, curiously, a fire-drill had been scheduled during my lecture, requiring me to cut the talk short. Later, rumors began circulating that a left-wing activist was attempting to prevent the talk from ever taking place.
These rumors were confirmed true shortly after my arrival in MSU’s Wilson Hall. Erin Belinger, a graduate student and the assistant director of Wilson Hall, announced that she was calling off the event and ordered us to leave. The microphone already had been taken away.
I told Belinger that I wouldn’t check-in my right to speak freely at the door to any university (http://www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6 507)</span></span> *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/yelclap.gif