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...improbably, a conservative born-again Christian, was drowned out by several hundred screaming protesters when he tried to speak at the University of Wisconsin. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani began a talk at Kansas State University. A roar of protest erupted from the back of the auditorium. The hall had to be cleared for 80 minutes...
...town meeting began exactly at 8 p.m. in the dimly lighted white clapboard auditorium overlooking Port Stanley's harbor. In the chair was Councilor Terry Peck, 45, an earnest, stocky plumber and former police chief who dutifully jotted notes on the proceedings. But the residents of the tiny capital (pop. 1,050) of the Falkland Islands were not getting together simply to discuss the local issues that bedevil most small communities. One man asked when the town gym, which is now occupied by British soldiers, would be open to the public again. Another grumbled about the military trucks that...
Outraged by reports of the incident, more than 600 students gathered in Penn's main auditorium on March 10 for a "Take Back Our Lives" rally organized by student leaders and women's activists. Organizers said yesterday they called the rally to protest both the alleged rape and general violence against women, which they say has been rising steadily at Penn for the past several years...
...NUMBER of professors stood behind their lecterns for their first classes of the semester last week and told the students gathered before them to get lost. "Please don't take this course," implored Alan Brinkley, the Dunwalke Associate Professor of History, as he stared at an auditorium where the class filled the aisles and spilled onto the stage. Other instructors who faced unworkable crowds excluded pass-fail students from enrolling in their courses...
Thirty five members of the Law School legal aid bureau began marching outside the auditorium an hour before the start of the discussion and their chants were audible as the speakers took their places at the discussion table