Threats of violence alone do not justify barring a controversial speaker from a campus, the federal judge hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by William Ayers against the University of Wyoming told the university's president, Thomas Buchanan, on Monday, according to the Casper Star-Tribune . Judge William Downes of the U.S. District Court in Casper, Wyo., is considering whether to order the university to allow Mr. Ayers to speak at a campus facility this week, pending the outcome of the lawsuit. He is expected to issue a ruling on Tuesday. Mr. Buchanan testified that the university had received a "torrent" of angry calls and threats about an earlier scheduled visit by Mr. Ayers, a former radical who is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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