Students, protesters ejected from controversial MSE speech
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Summary
- This News-Letter article reports on protests that interrupted Karl Rove’s lecture at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus.
- The paper reported that protesters linked to Occupy Baltimore interrupted Rove’s speech with chants, leading security officers to remove several people from the auditorium.
- The article says Rove called the protesters “presumptuous and arrogant” and later told them to “Stop acting like fascists and start acting like Americans.”
- The reporter writes that Elizabeth Goodstein, a co-chair of the symposium, asked the audience to let students hear Rove speak and said the protesters were disrespecting the event and student body.
- According to the article, Rove continued speaking after further interruptions, but the question-and-answer period ended with the audience about half its original size after many people were expelled or left.
- The article adds that protester Asher Strauss said, “I'm used to it,” but “I'm not backing down.”