October 1, 2004

Students and College Clash Over Invitation to the Filmmaker Michael Moore

By JOHN GRAVOIS

California State University at San Marcos has canceled a campus appearance by the filmmaker Michael Moore, drawing a prompt reaction from students, who collected their own funds to invite the director of Fahrenheit 9/11 to speak. Mr. Moore, however, may decline the students' invitation and demand that the university finance the visit.

University officials decided in September that Mr. Moore was too partisan a figure to speak at a university-sponsored event so soon before the

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