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UW-Madison Has Failed to Take Any Action Against Vandals Who Tried to Stop Matt Walsh Event, Organizer Claims

UW-Madison Has Failed to Take Any Action Against Vandals Who Tried to Stop Matt Walsh Event, Organizer Claims
Matt Walsh speaks at War Memorial Plaza during the “Rally to End Child Mutilation,” in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 21, 2022. Bobby Sanchez for The Epoch Times
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Eight weeks after a campaign of harassment and vandalism directed against the organizers of and participants in an event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison featuring conservative speaker and filmmaker Matt Walsh, the administration has yet to take disciplinary action against the culprits or even to express its disapproval of actions that clearly violated school policy, the head of the campus’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has told The Epoch Times.

The harassment, intimidation, and vandalism included the removal of fliers promoting the event, the purported theft and partial eating of a Bible belonging to a student who attended the talk, and an incident afterward in which several people allegedly attempted to follow the organizers on their way home from the campus, said Harrison Wells, the chair of the YAF chapter at UW-Madison.

Michael Washburn
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Michael Washburn is a New York-based reporter who covers U.S. and China-related topics for The Epoch Times. He has a background in legal and financial journalism, and also writes about arts and culture. Additionally, he is the host of the weekly podcast Reading the Globe. His books include “The Uprooted and Other Stories,” “When We're Grownups,” and “Stranger, Stranger.”
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