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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>
</body></article>
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