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Protest itself is nothing new to Commencement. For Law School graduates, it's practically a tradition. Last year, Law School students booed loudly when Dean Robert C. Clark stepped to the podium. They carried placards that read, "HLS Discriminates," "Resign Dean Clark" and "Dean--let me tell you about self-esteem." They held up a giant banner that blared, "Down with--Discrimination!!! Down with--The Dean!!!" Clark seemed unfazed; he tipped his hat politely to the crowd...
...question is, what will Powell and the world see and hear when he is at the podium? The answer is the only component of this saga you can control. Will he see a large number of people who have thought about his stand on the gay ban and approve of his presence? Probably. Will he see a bunch of students in shades who are too hungover to think abot any of this? Defintely. And he will most likely see a small group of individuals who do not feel the way he does on the idea of gays in the military...
Some alumni, though, said classes are conducted in essentially the same way--with podium and blackboard--as when they were undergraduates...
...heard murderous fantasies, and seen real beatings, count as legitimate contributions to this debate. Now the most outspoken opponent of our rights in this regard--who can hardly bring himself even to condemn the violence that his own pronouncements have licensed in his ranks--will occupy the highest-profile podium that Harvard can afford him, and will there argue once more for the general unfitness of gay people to participate in the military. Meanwhile, we will be expected to sit alongside him in polite silence, deprived of any right to "free speech...
...want President Rudenstine to get up on the podium with Powell and say, 'I and the University support lifting the ban," Greenspan said...