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Conservative Speaker Heading to University of Minnesota

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Conservative speaker Ben Shapiro is heading to the University of Minnesota for another in a series of speeches aimed at spreading conservative ideas on campus.

The author and former editor of the conservative site Breitbart News was scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. Monday on the university’s St. Paul campus.

The event promoter, Young America’s Foundation, had threatened a lawsuit over the university placing the speech in the 400-seat St. Paul Student Center. The group had wanted an 800-seat venue in Minneapolis.

No lawsuit had been filed as of Monday morning.

Several hundred people protested a speech by Shapiro in September at the University of California at Berkeley.

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