Gavin McInnes, a controversial far-right media personality, was pepper sprayed by non-student protestors while he was attempting to enter an event hosted by College Republicans at New York University (“NYU”). After recovering, McInnes went on to give his planned speech only to be interrupted after three minutes by protesting NYU students. Although this second protest was non-violent, it prohibited McInnes from continuing his talk. After twenty minutes of the continuous disruption, McInnes decided to cancel the event and leave campus.

A group of protestors—one wielding a cowbell—disrupted a College Republicans-sponsored presentation at Portland State University (“PSU”) by conservative journalist Michael Strickland. Whenever Strickland would attempt to speak, the protestor would begin yelling and ringing the cowbell continuously. Although a campus police officer was present, he did not intervene. After continuous disruption for an hour—the allotted time for the event—the protestor left, and the university allowed the event to continue for another thirty minutes. PSU later issued a statement defending the actions of the campus police officer, claiming that his inaction was justified “so as to not escalate a potentially unsafe situation.”

Pro-Trump protestors exercised their “heckler’s veto” by constantly interrupting and shouting insults at California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and California Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon at a public Q&A event hosted at Whittier College. The event was intended to be a 60-minute session but had to be cut short at 34 minutes due to the protestor’s actions. Apparently, the protest was organized to respond to Becerra’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s decision to discontinue the federal DACA program.

Milo Yiannopoulos and Martin Shkreli were invited to speak at an event held by the College Republicans at UC Davis. In response, about 150 protestors gathered at the venue and barred entrance to the lecture hall. Instead of escalating the situation by attempting to remove the protestors to allow ticket holders to enter the venue, campus police and the College Republicans decided to cancel the event thirty minutes before the slated start time. It does not appear that any protestors were investigated by the school for their actions, although police arrested one student for alleged assault on a police officer.

Erik Prince, an associate of President Trump and the controversial founder of the security company Blackwater, was invited by the Young Americans for Freedom (“YAF”) at Beloit College to discuss the private sector’s contributions to national security. In response, protestors gathered before Prince arrived and created a barricade of furniture on the stage, hanging a banner on the barricade that read “Erik Prince = War Criminal.” At this point, the school canceled the event, citing safety concerns. Although the school started an investigation into the incident, it is unclear whether any students were punished for their roles in the protest.

Middlebury College canceled a scheduled talk by Ryszard Legutko—a professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków—due to supposed safety concerns stemming from the amount of people interested in attending the event as well as the planned protest outside of the event. The protestors claimed that Legutko was a racist and a bigot but purportedly planned to not disrupt the event itself. The college has stated that they are open to re-scheduling the event in the future.