Thursday's final score: Liberals 1, Coulter 0

Ann Coulter, best-selling author and talking head, has come and gone from Xavier University, and the Cintas Center still stands.

Lots of people expected the kind of fireworks Coulter's campus appearances usually generate, with hot-heads from both sides causing a rumpus inside and outside the lecture hall. The Xavier administration (which had nothing to do with bringing Coulter to the Cintas Center; that was the college's Republican Club) even sought out some advice from administrators at Loyola of Chicago - like Xavier, a Jesuit school - on how they dealt with a Coulter campus appearance.


In the end, though, nothing happened. Coulter gave what, for her, was a fairly tepid speech, received fairly tepidly by the 1,273 in the hall.


The liberal groups on and off campus played it cool - they had gone out and raised $26,000, mostly in the blogosphere, for liberal groups on campus and they stayed far away from the Cintas Center. Instead, they held an old-fashioned political rally in another part of the campus.


As they sometimes say in the Cintas Center, when the Muskies are playing, no harm, no foul.


Here's the Enquirer coverage:


http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070906/NEWS01/309060033/