Mark Thompson, of the Champaign-Urbana area, was arrested at the Bill Ayers lecture Thursday night at Allen Hall.

Ayers was participating in the guest-in-residence program at the residence hall and lectured every night this week. Robin Kaler, University spokeswoman, said Thompson had attended each lecture during the week and had grown increasingly disruptive as

the week progressed.

Thursday night he rushed the stage on which Ayers was lecturing with two books, the Bible and Atlas Shrugged. Ayers felt threatened by the man’s advances and police arrested him.

The arrest had nothing to do with what Thompson was saying, Kaler said. He was arrested for resisting or obstructing a peace officer and interference with a public institution of higher education.