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In response to press inquiries, CSU-Fresno President John Welty issued this painfully familiar statement: "The role of the university is really to provide a place where ideas can be freely exchanged and dialogues can occur." And University of Texas-El Paso philosophy professor and seminar participant Steven Best (another Eco-Mob theorist) concurs: "If we can't speak freely at a university, I don't know where we can. We are not there to do anything but talk."

Just talk? Let's see:

Laura Whitehorn, whose intellectual achievements include the bombing of an empty conference room at the U.S. Capitol in 1983 to protest the U.S. intervention in Grenada, thus earning her fourteen years in the slammer.
"Don" Paul Watson will be there. Watson is currently wanted in Costa Rica and Iceland for eco-sabotage that resulted in the sinking of ten ships, mostly whalers. A cheerful Godfather of the Eco-Mob, Watson once smilingly told a reporter: "There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win."
"Capo" Gary Yourofsky of "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" (PETA) has been arrested a dozen times for mink "liberation" and other fur farm vandalism.
"Consigliere" Craig Rosebraugh, former media liaison for the "Earth Liberation Front" (ELF), exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination over fifty times during testimony before a Congressional committee investigating eco-terrorism in February 2001. The ELF -- among other capers -- is most famous for the October 1998 torching of the Two Elk Lodge and some smaller surrounding buildings at Vail, Colorado, in defense of lynx habitat (the wild cat, not a golf course), costing the Vail ski resort $12 million in insured damages.
"Soldier" Rodney Coronado of the "Animal Liberation Front" (ALF) is a convicted arsonist who served four years in prison for burning a Michigan State University research lab.