The press release from Doubletree general manager Tom Ziarnik describes the large group of students protesting the Center for Equal Opportunity?s report attacking the UW-Madison?s admission practices as a “mob” that “became increasingly physically violent when forcing themselves into the meeting room where the press conference had already ended.” And, it alleges that “staff were then rushed by a mob of protesters, throwing employees to the ground.”
I attended the press conference and was in the main lobby afterward. There was no “mob” that was “physically violent.”
(Michael Olneck is a UW-Madison professor emeritus of educational policy studies and sociology>)