Word: jeffrieses
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The crowd boos Jeffries so loudly that the speaker cannot be heard, and the moderator must dissolve the forum.
All the above scenarios constitute a Harvard administrator's nightmare, which is why so many University officials spent so much time and went to such great lengths to ensure that the Jeffries speech and the protest went off without a hitch.
Some of the worst-case scenarios described above were averted by simply closing the Jeffries speech to the press. Without non-student media coverage, and especially without television coverage, the event was much less likely to spiral out of control. And if it did get out of control, Harvard officials...
Rudenstine's final assessment of the way Harvard handled Wednesday's speech by Jeffries and the protest which surrounded the speech was overwhelmingly positive.
It is true that the University "handled the event extraordinarily well" to the extent that there was no violence and that both speaker and questioners were heard inside Sanders Theatre. But it remains to be seen how well the University, and its students, will "handle" the aftermath of the Jeffries...