(MENAFN) Hampshire College has all of a sudden cancelled a speech Wednesday by the gun advocate Antonia Okafor that it considered "too controversial." As it apologized, the college claimed that the speech cancellation resulted because the "student application" wasn't completed.
At all-female Mount Holyoke College, Okafor delivered a speech Thursday, though an "alternative space" was built for several students who were furious over her speech which was titled "Female Empowerment and the Second Amendment."
Climate Justice Coalition of the campus stated "we feel that the most productive use of our anger is to hold an alternative space for ourselves and others who have thoughts/concerns related to these topics. We feel that creating a deliberately separate space for conversation rather than holding a direct act of protest will be a more productive action for us without fueling the messaging of the Right."
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