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Charges against seven campus protesters will be heard in September after one had her case continued and the others rejected plea agreements this morning.

Haley Koch, a Morehead-Cain scholar, faces a charge of disturbing the peace for protesting former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo's speech April 14, Jesse DeConto reports.

Koch and another student held a banner in front of Riley Matheson, president of the campus chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, as he introduced Tancredo, a staunch opponent of mass immigration.

Her case and those of six other protesters in a second campus incident were scheduled for Orange County District Court this morning but will now be heard Sept. 14.

The other defendants protested at a speech by former U. S. Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia, who also favors stricter immigration policies, April 22.

More after the jump.

In the wake of the disruption of former Congressman Tom Tancredo’s speech, conservative groups plan to bring to Chapel Hill next week another major critic of illegal immigration.

Former Rep. Virgil Goode if Virginia is scheduled to speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday April 22nd at 6:30 p.m. at Gardner Hall, Rob Christensen reports.

Goode has been invited by the same campus group, Youth for Western Civilization, who brought in Tancredo, who was prevented from speaking on Monday night by protesters. His speech is being arranged by Team America, Tancredo's political action committee.

The subject of his talk is "Hate Speech, Free Speech and the Multiculturalism."

UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp apologized to Tancredo for the disruption.

U.S. Rep. Walter Jones wants the UNC students who disrupted the talk of former Congressman Tom Tancredo punished.

"I hope that disciplinary measures will be taken as warranted against any students or professors who participated in disrupting Congressman Tancredo's talk," Jones, a Pitt County Republican said in a statement.

He also urged that Tancredo be invited back to speak to speak "in a more secure setting," Rob Christensen reports.

"It is also my understanding that former Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode will soon be visiting the university," Jones said. "I recommend that the university take all actions necessary to ensure that future student-sponsored public policy discussions on the Chapel Hill campus do not get shut down by those with dissenting viewpoints."

Jones, like Tancredo and Goode, has been a critic of illegal immigration. Tancredo was forced to end his talk Monday night at UNC-Chapel Hill, when protesters disrupted him and broke a glass pane.

It took just a few hours for U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo to turn his unpleasant ouster from a UNC-Chapel Hill classroom into a fund-raising opportunity.

Tancredo, a Colorado Republican and strong opponent of illegal immigration, was forced to end his visit Tuesday night after protests by a few dozen students. One student broke a window, and police unleashed pepper spray on others, Barb Barrett reports.

Tancredo didn't get to deliver his speech.

But today, he sent out a fund-raising email to supporters, saying "hundreds of protesters" interrupted his speech. He called it a "riot."

"There is no freedom of speech on hundreds of university campuses today for people who dare to dissent from the radical political agenda of the socialist left and the open borders agitators," he wrote in his email.

Tancredo said he'll be back on campus sometime in the future and noted that former Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode will come to campus next week to speak.

He also urged supporters to give money to his Political Action Committee, Team America.

After the jump, the letter.