Penn State: students’ anger persists despite cancellation of far-right event

Criticism grows over the university's role in violence and chaos around planned speeches from Alex Stein and Gavin McInnes

Nick Ribaudo, a student at Penn State, was attending a protest at his university earlier this week when he heard sudden screams. He and about 300 other students were protesting against their college hosting Gavin McInnes, founder of the violent Proud Boys group, and Alex Stein, another far-right figure, on campus that evening.

Ribaudo was standing on a pillar, trying to get a vantage point of the action, when a group surged towards him, shrieking. One of their friends, a student at the university, had just been pepper-sprayed.