Planned Speech by Conservative Filmmaker Angers Some at Trinity University

Some students at Trinity University are not excited about plans for conservative filmmaker and speaker Dinesh D'Souza to give a speech at Laurie Auditorium next week, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports. 

Charles Wendt, who is with Tigers for Liberty, the conservative and libertarian student group which is sponsoring the speech, says fliers promoting the event are not being treated respectfully by some on campus.

"Not one, not two, not ten but more than 220 fliers had been vandalized and returned," he said.

He says some of the fliers contained insulting and obscene comments, many of them, interestingly enough, misspelled.

"There was actually a message on every single flyer, some of them even included drawings," said the sophomore from Ft. Worth.

Many of the fliers contained messages indicating that D'Souza's appearance would give Trinity a 'bad name' and they did't want him to come to campus.

Wendt says he understands that the anti-conservative mood is not representative of the entire campus.

"I'm a bit surprised that it happened at Trinity, but it's not widespread," he said.  "It's an isolated thing, maybe one or two or three students."

Wendt said since the vandalism occurred, registration for the free D'Souza event is actually up.  He says 1600 people have singed up to attend, and he expects Laurie Auditorium to be packed.

D'Souza will probably get over the criticism. He recently exulted in winning a 'Razzie' Award for his fim 'Hillary's America,' joking on Twitter that 'An Oscar would have ruined my career.'

A Trinity spokeswoman declined comment.  The event is sponsored by Wendt's group, not by the University.

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