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(116,804 posts) Sat Mar 4, 2017, 10:03 AM Mar 2017

Middlebury College professor injured by protesters as she escorted controversial speaker

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she was escorting a controversial speaker from campus. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.

Charles Murray, a political scientist who has been criticized for his views on race and intelligence, was invited to speak on campus by a student group. He was greeted late Thursday afternoon outside McCullough Student Center by hundreds of protesters, and inside Wilson Hall, students turned their backs to him when he got up to speak.

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Murray, who apparently was unhurt in the incident, is best known for his 1994 book, “The Bell Curve,” for which he was criticized for an assertion that people of different races have different economic outcomes because of their inherent difference in intelligence.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has called Murray a “white nationalist” who has used “racist pseudoscience.”

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Middlebury College professor injured by protesters as she escorted controversial speaker (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP

oh well heaven05 Mar 2017 #1

More coverage from the Vermont Digger: TexasTowelie Mar 2017 #2

heaven05

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1. oh well

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Mar 4, 2017, 11:03 AM

Mar 2017

Murray is a hero of prezident bannon, duke, miller, jones, I bet. Boy-potus hasn't read it, I know.

TexasTowelie

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2. More coverage from the Vermont Digger:

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Sat Mar 4, 2017, 11:38 AM

Mar 2017

https://vtdigger.org/2017/03/03/protesters-injure-middlebury-professor-escorting-controversial-speaker/

MIDDLEBURY — Protesters at Middlebury College injured professor Allison Stangar as she was escorting controversial guest lecturer Charles Murray from the campus Thursday. Stangar was treated at Porter Hospital for a neck injury and released the same evening.

“The act appeared to be committed by non-Middlebury students,” said Bill Burger, the college’s vice president of communications. “They were wearing masks and are believed to be from outside of the Middlebury community who came specifically to the event as agitators.”

Murray was invited to speak under the banner of the student-run conservative organization, the American Enterprise Institute Club. He has been criticized for his controversial work, “The Bell Curve,” which discusses correlations between race and intelligence. His more recent book, “Coming Apart,” is about class division in the United States. Murray has been labeled as a “white nationalist” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Students were successful disrupting Murray’s appearance by rallying in the auditorium, ultimately forcing his presentation to continue via live video stream.

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