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- <text id=91TT1229>
- <title>
- June 03, 1991: Commencement Contretemps
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 03, 1991 Date Rape
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Commencement Contretemps
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> 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
- reception:
- </p>
- <p> BILLY JOEL
- </p>
- <p> 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").
- </p>
- <p> DICK CHENEY
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> DOUGLAS WILDER
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> JAMES BAKER
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> TURGUT OZAL
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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