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Reading everything from knock-knock jokes to plays to chemistry papers, the Harvard College Democrats completed a 25-hour mock filibuster in front of the Science Center at one o’clock this morning.
Dems members say the chose to filibuster for 25 hours because it is one hour longer than the longest known filibuster in Senate history—the late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.
Down in New Jersey, Princeton students are now in the 16th consecutive day of symbolic filibustering in front of the college’s Frist Campus Center—a building funded by the family of Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn. As the Senate’s majority leader, Frist...
Daily Kos and other left-leaning blogs last week monitored a round-the-clock mock filibuster that Princeton students organized in front of the school's Frist Campus Center, whose name was a result of a $25 million pledge from the family of Senate majority leader Bill Frist. The nonstop...
The Daily Princetonian reported last week that the filibuster faced an obstacle on its first day, when public safety officers said the students needed a permit to continue their demonstration. Princeton’s Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan approved the event shortly after. Vagliano said there has been...