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From: LindyBill4/8/2005 7:18:46 PM
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This takes the cake
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By Erin O'Connor

Conservative provocateur David Horowitz is used to being shouted down when he gives talks on college and university campus. He's also used to getting a lot of mileage out of the irony therein--usually he's talking about intolerance when the shouting down happens. Now he's got even more to work with. On Wednesday, while delivering a speech at Butler University, Horowitz was hit in the face with a pie. According to InsideHigherEd.com, this was the third time in ten says that a conservative speaker has been pelted with food while delivering a talk on a midwestern campus:

William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, was hit in the face with a pie during a speech at Earlham College and Pat Buchanan, the former presidential candidate, had salad dressing thrown on him at Western Michigan University.

Horowitz was at Butler as part of his campaign to encourage state legislatures to adopt the "Academic Bill of Rights," which Horowitz says will encourage a diversity of views in higher education, but that critics say is an attack on academic freedom. In a statement on the incident at Butler, Horowitz said, “It is ironic that these assailants tried to prevent me from delivering a lecture on the need for greater tolerance and respect for dissenting opinions in the academic community.”

After the incident, Horowitz finished his speech.

Earlham suspended the student who threw the pie.
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