Facing Protests, Cantor Calls Off Speech at Penn

Facing the prospect of protests from the Occupy Philadelphia movement, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Friday called off a planned talk at the University of Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Cantor said in a statement that he canceled after learning that Penn would allow members of the public to attend. He said that he had agreed to the talk on the belief that it would be restricted to those affiliated with Penn. But a statement from Penn said that the university always has opened such events to the general public, and that it never promised Cantor otherwise.