“The character of that attack on campus was unprecedented,” UC-Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks said Tuesday. [Berkeley gave birth to the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s. https://t.co/PlbOP8YcDj — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 24, 2017Berkeley College Republicans originally invited Coulter to speak on campus Thursday, but university officials canceled the event because of safety concerns. Conservative commentator Ann Coulter says threats of violence won't stop her from speaking at the University of California at Berkeley on April 27. [Ann Coulter rejects Berkeley’s new invitation to speak next week]Pranav Jandhyala, who leads one of the two student groups that invited Coulter, said Tuesday that Coulter told him and other students that she plans to speak Thursday afternoon at Sproul Plaza.

Source: Washington Post April 25, 2017 22:32 UTC