Marquette: Liberal Students Deface, Tear Down Posters for Michelle Malkin Speech

Michelle Malkin gave a good talk tonight, and hopefully the MacIver Institute (which was taping it) will post the video.

We didn’t expect any disruption, thinking that Marquette students are too polite to try to shout down a speaker, and indeed the two Public Safety officers on duty said that the only possibility of disruption would be from “outside” groups.

In fact the crowd was very pro-Malkin, with no hint of disruption.

But one student got up during the question and answer session to report a rather explosive fact: a friend of his had bragged about going around campus and tearing down flyers that advertised the Malkin talk.

The person was Law School student Steven Manders, who insisted his friend (whom he prefered not to name) was not just blowing smoke, and indeed Manders confirmed that Malkin posters had been torn down in the Wells Street parking garage, where his friend had been.

Officers of the College Republicans confirmed that numerous posters had been torn down, and many other defaced. The language used about Malkin on the defaced posters could not be repeated, since a lady was present when we were speaking to the officers.

Marquette Warrior