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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Commencement Contretemps
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- At graduation ceremonies this year, all is not pomp and
- circumstance. When George Bush spoke in mid-May at Hampton
- University, students angered by his civil rights policies
- displayed the clenched-fist sign. Among others getting a chilly
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- BILLY JOEL
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- Fairfield University A philosophy professor at the
- Catholic college questioned the presentation of an honorary
- doctorate to the writer of Only the Good Die Young ("Come out
- Virginia/ Don't let me wait/ You Catholic girls start much too
- late").
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- DICK CHENEY
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- Colorado College About 50 students wearing white armbands
- and paper peace doves turned their backs on the Secretary of
- Defense as he addressed his daughter Mary Claire's graduating
- class.
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- DOUGLAS WILDER
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- University of Bridgeport Virginia's Governor -- and
- potential presidential candidate -- canceled his commencement
- speech on 24 hours' notice: he refused to cross the picket lines
- of striking faculty members.
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- JAMES BAKER
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- Princeton University So far, more than 600 students and
- faculty members have signed a petition condemning as an
- "inappropriate political act" the rumored presentation of an
- honorary degree to the Secretary of State at the June 11
- ceremonies.
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- TURGUT OZAL
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- State University of New York at Albany Turkey's President,
- citing a busy schedule, backed out of last Sunday's commencement
- exercises after students protested his country's human-rights
- abuses.
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