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From: cuccia@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Nick "Coosh" Cuccia)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Trash Student Government?
Message-ID: <11477@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 00:30:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 00:30:03 1986
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In article <373@ihnp1.UUCP> frear@ihnp1.UUCP (L. Frear) writes:
>In honor of George Bush's appearance, the student government at U of MI
>decided to shout through Mr. Bush's entire speech, so that no one could 
>hear him.  I don't know if they did, I would have been too embarrassed
>by such childish behaviour that I did not attend.  It's sad to say that
>many student governments are an embarrassment not only to the faculty/
>staff/regents/alums but also to their fellow students.
>
>-- 
 
>			Lori Frear
>			ihnp4!ihnp3!frear

Agreed.  The same thing happened here at Cal in 83, when Jeane
Kirkpatrick was heckled off stage by members of CISPES/SAICA (one of
the local anti-US Central American policy groups..).  This not
only gave Berkeley a very bad reputation with regards to being
a place to speak, but has clouded over the possibility in the
forseeable future of any moderate/conservative speakers speaking
on campus (Edward Teller of LLNL spoke here last year, but under
very tight security and secrecy so tight that nobody in the class
that he was speaking in knew he was speaking until lecture that
day...).

I hate the idea of freedom of speech belonging only to those with
'politically correct' ideas, whether the PC ideas are left or right
of center.  Heckling of speakers generally stinks, whether the speaker
is Mondale at U$C, Kirkpatrick at Cal-Berkeley, or Bush at UMich.

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