BOSTON (AP) - Brown University students stole the entire press run of an issue of the Brown Daily Herald
in an apparent protest of an ad denouncing reparations for slavery that appeared in an earlier edition.

Herald staff members Friday physically restrained a mob of students who tried to force their way into the newspaper's
office and destroy the remaining 100 copies of Friday's newspaper. The protesters pounded on the door and demanded
an apology and financial amends for the ad in Tuesday's editions, The Boston Globe reported Saturday.

The advertisement had a headline that said, ``Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea and Racist Too'' and a
layout that was similar to the Bill of Rights. It stated that black Americans owed the United States more than it owed them.

The Herald became the first Ivy League newspaper to print the ad from conservative theorist David Horowitz. It had been
rejected by at least 18 college newspapers, including the Columbia Daily Spectator, the Harvard Crimson, and
UMass-Amherst's Massachusetts Daily Collegian. Of those that ran it, at least four quickly apologized.

The newspaper on Thursday issued a statement defending its decision to print the ad.

``We understand that the advertisement contains content that some may find disconcerting,'' the statement said.
``But we will not apologize for printing a legitimate advertisement that may offend some of our readership.''

Leaders of Brown's minority student associations demanded that the newspaper donate the $725 fee received
from the advertiser to campus minority projects and issue a formal statement of regret.

They also removed the papers from their distribution bins and replaced them with fliers that accused the paper of insensitivity.

``I think there's a fine line between free speech and being disrespectful and distasteful, and the Brown Daily Herald
clearly crossed the line,'' sophomore Clement Tsao told the Globe.

The Herald planned to reprint Friday's editions for distribution Saturday and beef up its newsroom security.
The Herald called the seizure of the newspapers ``an unacceptable attempt to silence our voice,'' and added that
``we will not censor advertisements because of their politics, which is what we believe our critics wish us to do.''

The ad has sparked similar protests at other universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where
100 protesters stormed the student newspaper's office last week and demanded the top editor's resignation
after the newspaper ran the ad.  The Badger Herald refused to apologize, saying to do so would hamper free speech.

The Daily Californian, the newspaper at the University of California at Berkley, issued a a front-page apology
for running the ad, saying the newspaper was an ``inadvertent vehicle for bigotry.''