The uproar at UMass-Amherst is only the latest wrangle over controversial speakers at area campuses:
October 2009 A Harvard University student group rescinds a speaking invitation to Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, a movement opposed to illegal immigration, after an uproar on campus.
March 2009 Dozens protest a speech at Brandeis University by William Ayers, cofounder of the Weather Underground. Earlier that month, Boston College bars Ayers, now an education professor, from speaking on campus or by satellite link after the school said it received hundreds of complaints.
May 2008 US Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey speaks at the BC Law School graduation amid scattered protests. More than 20 faculty members, citing his refusal to publicly declare that a controversial interrogation technique constitutes torture, had asked Mukasey to back out of the speech.
September 2006 When former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami visited Harvard and MIT in 2006, Governor Mitt Romney forbade State Police from providing an escort or offering security.
