Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has told UC Berkeley student groups that she intends to speak on campus Thursday, leaving the consequences of her controversial appearance to be decided by university police, demonstrators and counter-protestors. Coulter’s decision to speak in an unprotected, public place concerned Pranav Jandhyala, 19, a political science and business student who is president of BridgeCal, one of the groups that invited her to Berkeley. University administrators whom Jandhyala met with Tuesday, he said, did not seem to share his concern that Coulter would be met by violent demonstrators. “I do know that we have neither the desire or the ability to keep people off of Sproul Plaza,” UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said. ALSOAnn Coulter, free speech and UC Berkeley: How a talk became a political bombshellUC protests shut down Milo Yiannopoulos talk, sparking free speech debateColumn: The Bill O'Reilly case shows how much Fox News and UC Berkeley have (horrors!)

Source: Los Angeles Times April 26, 2017 01:19 UTC