U-M Students Protest Possible Visit of White Supremacist Spencer

ANN ARBOR, MI-- University of Michigan students walked out of their classes on Wednesday in protest to the possibility of white supremacist Richard Spencer being allowed to visit the campus to speak.

Students gathered on the Diag on campus, marching into classes to interrupt classes to get students to join their protest, heading back out to join others who were gathering outside during lunch time. This comes after last week when U-M President Mark Schissell announced to the university that there would be a meeting with the Board of Regents to begin talks about where Spencer could speak on campus.

The university has been met with outcry from students and student organizations, many of them banded together to protest the choice being made by Schissel, and hoping to force the university in forbidding Spencer from speaking on campus. Many students feeling unsafe by Spencer's presence on campus especially in wake of the violence that occurred in Charlottesville.

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Image Credit via Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)