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...Calero stepped forward to deliver his speech, Joshua Laub, a Tufts senior, rushed to the front of the room and leapt onto the podium. Harvard University police pulled Laub, screaming epithets, to the ground and handcuffed him after a brief struggle...
Calero's speech at the Law School yesterday afternoon was abruptly cut off when a member of the International Committee Against Racism, an extreme leftist group, rushed the podium and attempted to attack Calero...
Youth Front rallies clearly are designed to provoke and to create tension. Those who organize these types of rallies--both in Italy and at Harvard--hardly care about what their speakers have to say. Rather, they take pride simply in bringing controversial men to the podium, drawing attention to themselves and their otherwise floundering causes, and creating a scene...
...alumni seem to display somewhat more enthusiam for recruiting athletes than they do for recruiting introverted geeks (who after all appear to be the only identifiable group to vociferate sullenly towards the mental capacity or treatment of Harvard athletes when they are given a podium), we might conclude that alumni have more admiration for--and take greater pride in Harvard's athletes than they do in Harvard's introverted "strictly academic students...
...puts the microphone around his neck and bumps it on tables, chairs and the podium, causing a horrible noise and lots of feedback to erupt over the loudspeakers in the lecture hall. He turns the volume up, then down and then finally takes the mike off. He decides to talk loudly instead of using the microphone and asks if people in the back can hear. They say no, but he can't hear them and therefore keeps on lecturing without missing a beat...