Conservative speaker heading to University of Minnesota

Ben Shapiro at Politicon.
Ben Shapiro at the "Cenk Uygur vs. Ben Shapiro" panel during Politicon at the Pasadena Convention Center on July 30, 2017, in California.
Joshua Blanchard | Getty Images for Politicon 2017

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 is 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.

Neither the university nor a Young America's spokesperson immediately responded to messages Monday.

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

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