 — Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has turned down a compromise offer to speak next month at the University of California at Berkeley, insisting she plans to stick with next week’s planned appearance that was canceled by officials over security concerns. Coulter’s rejection opened the latest showdown after days of dueling in which Berkeley called off the speech then later reversed the decision but offered a different date and venue. ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 "Ms. Coulter’s announcement that she intends to come to this campus on April 27 without regard for the fact that we don’t have a protectable venue available on that date is of grave concern," Dirks wrote. In the statement, Dirks also confirmed that he instructed university officials to look for a new venue for Coulter after she vowed to come to the school as planned on April 27 and deliver her speech. They'll just have to take this absurd literacy test first.
– Ann Coulter can speak at the University of California-Berkeley after all, the university says—but the different date it has proposed is nowhere near good enough. After Berkeley, which said it called off her April 27 speech due to security concerns, issued a press release saying she had been offered a slot on May 2, Coulter slammed the university in a series of tweets, the Hill reports. The conservative author complained "burdensome conditions" were being put on her constitutional right to speak, likened Berkeley to a "Southern sheriff" trying to stop black people from voting, and vowed to speak on the original date. Coulter's vow to come to campus April 27 "without regard for the fact that we don’t have a protectable venue available on that date is of grave concern," Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said in Berkeley's statement, adding that he asked for an expanded search, which "identified an appropriate, protectable venue that is available on the afternoon of May 2." Officials worry the Coulter speech will become the latest Berkeley clash between far-left and far-right activists. "It feels like we've become the OK Corral for the Hatfield and McCoys of the right and left," Dan Mogulof, the university's assistant vice chancellor for public affairs, tells the Washington Post. "We're the venue for these showdowns taking place."