STONY BROOK, N.Y. AP) – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech on women and equal pay was interrupted twice Thursday by anti-war protesters at a Long Island university.

The 26 protesters – in an audience of about 300 – shouted out “Stop the war” and “Troops out now” as the Democratic senator from New York spoke at Stony Brook University. They said Clinton supported President Bush and the war in Iraq.

Clinton did not respond to the shouts, but university President Shirley Strum Kenny stood up and told the demonstrators that everyone has the right to listen to the senator and they shouldn’t interrupt.

The protesters, wearing black T-shirts with white letters that spelled “Troops out now,” then stood for another 20 minutes with their backs to Clinton while she finished her speech and took questions.