From the Burlington (VT) Free Press:
Middlebury students shout down author Nicole Higgins DeSmet , Free Press Staff Writer Published 6:09 p.m. ET March 2, 2017Middlebury College students shouted down Libertarian political scientist and author Charles Murray as he tried to deliver a speech Thursday afternoon. …
In the lecture hall there were a series of speakers before Murray took the stage.
“I would regret it terribly if my presence here today, which is an expression of support I try to give to all my students [...] is read to be something which is not, an endorsement of Mr. Murray’s teachings and writings,” Middlebury College President Laurie L. Patton said to the students …
Several groups in the audience stood as Murray began to speak. They turned their backs and spoke over him. Single voices merged into a call and response that included “Who is the enemy? White supremacy,” and “Charles Murray go away. Racist. Sexist. Anti-gay.”
Faculty observed the proceedings, but no one moved to stop the students who broke almost every rule in the college policy rule book.
Murray was moved to a private room where administrators streamed live video of his speech to a screen in the McCullough Student Center where about 100 students and faculty remained.
Following the disruption, students scattered through the building trying to find out where the broadcast was coming from.
“We believe that his views are racist. Our goal is not to give him a platform on this campus,” student Emma Ronai-Durning said before disappearing down a stairwell.
