Conservative commentator David Horowitz was forced to cut short his speech on “Islamo-Fascism” in the face of repeated interruptions, heckling and catcalls from some audience members in a packed lecture room in White Hall. Many students and administrators — on all sides of the political spectrum — expressed their dismay that Horowitz could not finish his speech. Here are all of the responses the Wheel has received since the speech on Wednesday.

Actions of Protesters Are What Fuels Horowitz's Campaigns

By Rachel Bowser and Lisa Schneider
Posted 11/01/2007Read more

Horowitz Fiasco Awakens True Sense of School Spirit

By Jeremy Barr
Posted 10/29/2007School spirit is about standing together as one in the face of adversity. By treating David Horowitz with respect and practicing respectable dissent, students showed what Emory is all about. Read more

Turning Their Backs on Dialogue

By Steven Stein
Posted 10/26/2007Zain Ahmed is Muslim and I am Jewish. He disagrees with most of what David Horowitz says; for the most part, I do not. But when I sought out Ahmed after Horowitz’s chaotic speech on Wednesday, we came to the same conclusion: This was a sad day for academic discourse. Read more

Leaving Emory Speechless

By Kelse Moen
Posted 10/26/2007The events surrounding Horowitz's attempted speech on Wednesday constituted a blow to Emory's reputation, but not in the ways some predicted. Read more

Horowitz Protesters Did Not Have the Support of Emory's Muslim Community

By Aysha Hidayatullah and Sarah Zaim
Posted 10/26/2007The Emory Muslim Religious Advisor and the president of the Emory Muslim Students Association clarify the Emory Muslim community's stance of respectful protest against Horowitz. Read more

A Fear Monger Arrives and a Campus Cowers

By Yassin Gaber
Posted 10/26/2007When David Horowitz the neo-con fear monger — rivaled only by the likes of Ann Coulter and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz — is invited to campus with only a whimper of opposition from student groups, faculty members or the administration, something else about Emory’s political culture comes to light. Read more

Horowitz Not the Only Conservative to Recieve a Hostile Reception

By Harvey Klehr
Posted 11/01/2007Read more

Why I Stood Against Horowitz

By Hillary Polchow
Posted 10/29/2007As a current Emory student who stood with my back turned during Horowitz’s speech, I would like to respond to those who have called my actions disgraceful. I believe that it is much more dangerous letting hate and half-truths go unchallenged. Read more

Doing His Work For Him

By Amir Naim
Posted 10/26/2007The protesters played right into David Horowitz's hands, and the constant heckling did absolutely nothing to counter any of the claims that he planned to make in his talk. Read more

Protesters Make Horowitz Look Good

By Asher Smith
Posted 10/26/2007Horowitz is an insignificant fool. Which is why the fact that he was forced to cut his planned remarks short and leave is all the more upsetting and unsettling. Read more

A Horowitz Protester Explains the Motivation Behind the Disruption

By Jay Pasinelli
Posted 10/26/2007I read the article on your website covering the David Horowitz event with both interest and dismay. Horowitz got a taste of his own medicine — and didn’t like it. Read more

For a Liberal, Horowitz Protest is Shameful

By Elizabeth Janzsky
Posted 10/26/2007I consider myself one of the most liberal people around, but Wednesday, for the first time in my life, I was embarrassed to call myself a liberal. Read more