The University of California-Berkeley, with a reputation for increasingly violent activism, wants to be more like the University of Colorado. CU hasn’t endured a headline-worthy riot in 20 years.

University of Colorado President Bruce Benson spoke Saturday about Berkeley’s flattering imitation, before presenting an award at the Steamboat Institute’s ninth annual Freedom Conference & Festival in Steamboat Springs. Benson had no idea another violent left-wing melee would erupt the next day just three blocks from the Berkeley campus.

The Steamboat Institute honored Benson with its “Courage in Education Award” last year, and he was on hand to give this year’s award to Lafayette College Assistant Prof. Brandon Van Dyck.

Benson explained how the administration at CU-Berkeley recently designed a program after CU’s endowed chair of Conservative Thought and Policy, filled each year by a visiting scholar.

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