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In Wake Of UW Protest Of Shapiro, Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill To Suspend Or Expel Students Disrupting Speeches
by Hank Berrien
June 22, 2017

On Wednesday night, spurred by the incident in November 2016 when Daily Wire Editor-In-Chief Ben Shapiro’s speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was drowned out by roughly a dozen student protesters who blocked him from the audience, Republicans in the Wisconsin State Assembly passed the Campus Free Speech Act, which would suspend and possibly expel students in the UW system if they repeatedly disrupt campus speakers whom they are protesting. No Democrats voted for the bill, which is headed for the state Senate. Instead of noting that conservatives had been prevented from speaking, the Democrats protested that protesters’ free speech was being thwarted. READ MORE