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05-22-2017, 07:56 AM
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Notre Dame Students Walk Out of Mike Pence Commencement Address
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/us/mike-pence-notre-dame-commencement-address.html?_r=0
A large crowd of students walked out of the Notre Dame commencement ceremony on Sunday in protest of the speaker, Vice President Mike Pence, who delivered a speech that mixed platitudes about bright, dream-filled futures with a lengthy rebuke of political correctness on college campuses.
As several dozen students in caps and gowns quietly exited the graduation ceremony, the vice president praised Notre Dame, one of the nation’s most prominent Catholic universities, as “a vanguard of freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas.” Other schools do not measure up, he said.
“While this institution has maintained an atmosphere of civility and open debate, far too many campuses across America have become characterized by speech codes, safe zones, tone policing, administration-sanctioned political correctness — all of which amounts to nothing less than suppression of the freedom of speech,” he said (https://www.facebook.com/ABCNewsPolitics/videos/1277742708990619/?cid=social_twitter_abcnp).
“These all-too-common practices are destructive of learning and the pursuit of knowledge, and they are wholly outside the America tradition.”
The protest began as Mr. Pence began his remarks at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind., where degrees were conferred on 2,081 students.
Online video of the ceremony showed a large number of young people filing out of the stadium as the vice president began to congratulate the graduates and their families.
Around them, the audience erupted into a mixture of boos and applause.
Videos Inside
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/21/us/22xp-pence/22xp-pence-master768.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GbCSeVmEPo
Notre Dame Students Walk Out of Mike Pence Commencement Address
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/us/mike-pence-notre-dame-commencement-address.html?_r=0
A large crowd of students walked out of the Notre Dame commencement ceremony on Sunday in protest of the speaker, Vice President Mike Pence, who delivered a speech that mixed platitudes about bright, dream-filled futures with a lengthy rebuke of political correctness on college campuses.
As several dozen students in caps and gowns quietly exited the graduation ceremony, the vice president praised Notre Dame, one of the nation’s most prominent Catholic universities, as “a vanguard of freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas.” Other schools do not measure up, he said.
“While this institution has maintained an atmosphere of civility and open debate, far too many campuses across America have become characterized by speech codes, safe zones, tone policing, administration-sanctioned political correctness — all of which amounts to nothing less than suppression of the freedom of speech,” he said (https://www.facebook.com/ABCNewsPolitics/videos/1277742708990619/?cid=social_twitter_abcnp).
“These all-too-common practices are destructive of learning and the pursuit of knowledge, and they are wholly outside the America tradition.”
The protest began as Mr. Pence began his remarks at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind., where degrees were conferred on 2,081 students.
Online video of the ceremony showed a large number of young people filing out of the stadium as the vice president began to congratulate the graduates and their families.
Around them, the audience erupted into a mixture of boos and applause.
Videos Inside
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/21/us/22xp-pence/22xp-pence-master768.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GbCSeVmEPo