--- title: Charles Murray, Milo Yiannopoulos Protests: Schools Respond description: Colleges where high-profile protests recently escalated toward violence want their peers across the country to learn from their mistakes canonical: https://time.com/4697066/campus-protests-controversial-speakers/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-13T10:00:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:33.281Z article:section: U.S. og:title: How Violent Campus Protests Became a Warning for Other Schools og:description: "We won’t have any ability to say we didn’t see it coming next time" og:url: https://time.com/4697066/campus-protests-controversial-speakers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted4f5ed2b0b6442e/6988bdf94dd215fea3efe182/middlebury-charles-murray-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: College Speaker Controversy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Violent Campus Protests Became a Warning for Other Schools twitter:description: "We won’t have any ability to say we didn’t see it coming next time" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted4f5ed2b0b6442e/6988bdf94dd215fea3efe182/middlebury-charles-murray-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Violent Protests at Middlebury and Berkeley Became a Warning for Other Schools > Sponsored content. 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Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart news after controversial comments he made about pedophilia surface._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 13, 2017 10:00 AM UTC  Middlebury College students turn their backs to author Charles Murray during his lecture in Middlebury, Vt, on March 2, 2017. Middlebury College students turn their backs to author Charles Murray during his lecture in Middlebury, Vt, on March 2, 2017.Lisa Rathke—AP  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 13, 2017 10:00 AM UTC Recent student demonstrations that escalated into violence have fueled a national debate over free speech on college campuses, forcing universities to rethink how to effectively prepare for controversial speakers — and the accompanying protests. Conservative writer [Charles Murray](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,2111250,00.html), who has faced criticism for a 1994 book that linked intelligence level with race, was [shouted down and then physically confronted](http://time.com/4690735/charles-murray-middlebury-protest/) by protesters at Vermont’s Middlebury College on March 2\. A month earlier, an event featuring controversial right-wing pundit [Milo Yiannopoulos](http://time.com/4677624/milo-yiannopoulos-breitbart-resigns-pedophilia/?iid=sr-link3) at the University of California, Berkeley was [canceled](http://time.com/4657688/trump-milo-yiannopoulos-breitbart/#) after peaceful protests turned violent. And at New York University, [11 people were arrested at a protest](http://time.com/4659339/new-york-university-protests-arrests-gavin-mcinnes/) over a speech by conservative comedian Gavin McInnes. “I think any campus administration that might have said, after it happened at Berkeley, ‘That could never happen here,’ I think was probably having second thoughts after seeing what happened at Middlebury,” said Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof. The next school to grapple with this issue could be Vanderbilt University, where Murray is scheduled to speak on Tuesday in his first campus event since Middlebury. “We’re aware of the Middlebury event, and with that in mind, we’re looking at what might or might not happen on our own campus,” said Vanderbilt spokesperson Elizabeth Latt. She said Murray’s event at Vanderbilt, which is not sponsored by the university, is an invitation-only address organized by the Vanderbilt chapter of the Adam Smith Society, an association for MBA students. “As with a number of events on campus, Vanderbilt has made an assessment; however, in the interest of safety and security, we do not share information about contingency planning,” Latt said in an email. Ahead of Yiannopoulos’ event at Berkeley last month, Mogulof said the school took standard steps to prepare, meeting with student organizers to discuss basic security measures and to make sure they were aware of [other recent campus protests](http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/violence-punctuates-uw-talk-by-breitbart-editor-milo-yiannopoulos/) over Yiannopoulos. Because of the attention and pushback the Berkeley event attracted in the weeks preceding the speech, the school also brought in specially trained campus police officers from other schools in the University of California system. But on the day of the event, protests [grew destructive](http://www.newsweek.com/2017/02/24/berkeley-protest-milo-yiannopoulos-black-bloc-556264.html), and Yiannopoulos’ speech was canceled. The university has blamed the violence on “agitators who invaded the campus and disrupted” an otherwise peaceful student protest. In the future, Mogulof said, it will be important to carefully consider details like the venue and timing of a given event. And he said the university has an obligation to be better prepared. “You can only have something unprecedented happen once because the next time, it’s precedented,” he said. “We won’t have any ability to say we didn’t see it coming next time.” Anticipating protests of Murray’s lecture, Middlebury administrators had arranged for two officers from the town police department to be on campus, in addition to private security personnel to help with crowd control. The school prepared a separate room for Murray to finish his speech via livestream if necessary, and administrators required a Middlebury ID badge to enter the building for the lecture in an effort to limit attendance to students and faculty. But the protest escalated anyway. Middlebury President Laurie Patton called it an “extremely difficult episode” and launched an investigation to determine what happened and who was involved. “I think every institution, every college or university in the country, right now needs to step back and consider the extent to which we’re in a different political environment,” said Middlebury spokesperson Bill Burger. “Whether it’s at U.C. Berkeley or Middlebury, we need to recognize the internal and external forces that come into play and plan accordingly.” Leaders at both schools have said they will continue to support free speech and protest, while working to prevent violent responses to future speakers. “What hasn’t changed at all is our complete commitment to the First Amendment and free speech and not standing in the way when student groups want to invite speakers,” Mogulof said. Will Creeley, senior vice president of legal and public advocacy at the [Foundation for Individual Rights in Education](https://www.thefire.org/) (FIRE), said he has spoken with many university leaders who are preparing for their school to be next. “There’s a kind of heightened probability of further reaction,” Creeley said. FIRE, a free-speech watchdog group, advocates for the rights of students and faculty members — both those who protest and those who invite controversial speakers to campus. Creeley said universities should enforce consequences for violence and encourage students to demonstrate their disagreement by asking pointed questions, ignoring speakers altogether or protesting peacefully in a separate location. “The old adage about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure is really applicable here,” he said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4697066/campus-protests-controversial-speakers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4697066/campus-protests-controversial-speakers/"},"headline":"How Violent Protests at Middlebury and Berkeley Became a Warning for Other Schools","datePublished":"2017-03-13T10:00:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:54:33.281Z","description":"\"We won’t have any ability to say we didn’t see it coming next time\"","url":"https://time.com/4697066/campus-protests-controversial-speakers/","keywords":["protest","Education","College","protests","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted4f5ed2b0b6442e/6988bdf94dd215fea3efe182/middlebury-charles-murray-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted4f5ed2b0b6442e/6988bdf94dd215fea3efe182/middlebury-charles-murray-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"College Speaker Controversy","caption":"College Speaker Controversy","creditText":"Lisa Rathke—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/protest/","name":"protest"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4697066/campus-protests-controversial-speakers/","name":"How Violent Protests at Middlebury and Berkeley Became a Warning for Other Schools"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns From Breitbart News","description":"Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart news after controversial comments he made about pedophilia surface.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ULhGdU22/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-02-21T22:07:53.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ULhGdU22.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4697066/campus-protests-controversial-speakers/","duration":"PT1M2S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4697066/campus-protests-controversial-speakers/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```