Berkeley Limits Crowd Size for Conservative Speaker to Half the Auditorium Citing 'Security Assessment'

Town Hall - Lauretta Brown:

The University of California Berkeley recently notified the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) of yet another restriction on Ben Shapiro’s September 14th lecture. YAF was informed that half the auditorium slated for the speech must be left empty due to a “new security assessment.”

According to YAF, the university’s administrators notified them that half of Zellerbach Hall must be left empty during the lecture “despite the university charging more than $15,000 to secure a fully-filled Zellerbach Hall.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has called such fees unconstitutional.

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