Hundreds of BYU students protest Cheney being this years commencement speaker

[sabra]

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660209039,00.html



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Still, they considered the relatively tame sit-in a success because more than 300 students, faculty and staff demonstrated their concern about the choice of Vice President Dick Cheney as BYU's commencement speaker on April 26.

There were a couple of highlights. One woman wore a paper sack over her head. Another poured water over a second hooded student's face to symbolize torture tactics supported by Cheney.

"This is much larger than anyone expected," said Byron Daynes, a political science professor who spent last year at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. "As a William J. Clinton Fellow, I'm delighted."

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Several Democrats expressed frustration with the College Republicans student club because it held a simultaneous "pro-BYU" party about 100 yards away. Most of that smaller group's signs proclaimed the GOP club supported BYU and the church's First Presidency.
"The implication is we don't (support BYU)," complained German professor Alan Keele. "That's a Karl Rove tactic — to take our message and twist it into something it's not."

[meegbear]

1. I was listening to this on NPR this morning ...

they ended the story saying that Cheney wasn't considered to be a speaker. The VP staff called the school and "suggested" it; it's assumed they did that because they felt it's conservative there and there would be no problems.

[IWantAChange]

2. I wonder how big the College Repug club would be if there was a military draft???

another helping of chicken-hawk anyone???

[Buzz Clik]

3. I hear some of the students have really taken the disobedience to a new level --

They have been openly drinking caffeinated drinks and popping NoDoz pills.

It's shocking.

[helderheid]

6. !

:spray:

[helderheid]

4. Ah, let him speak. Just be sure to make it clear how you feel about him.

[bryant69]

5. Yeah - I'd agree with this

Let him come and say his piece but let him know what a bastard he is.

Bryant
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[Jack Rabbit]

8. It would be a shame to let rotten fruit go to waste

!!

[Cabcere]

7. Ugh...I can't imagine Shooter Dick being my commencement speaker.

:puke: And I feel sorry for anyone who has to listen to him!

(I think my graduating class @ my school might try to get Stephen Colbert next year...the votes are still being counted, and then of course it has to go to the Board of Visitors, et al....but we'll see. :))