I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, or revive one back from the dead, but browsing the Salt Lake City Weekly “Best of Utah 2008″, guess what was listed as BEST BYU EVENT… that’s right, they’re still talking about the change we made. You can check out the full article here, or just read the excerpt below if you don’t appreciate some recreational profanity.
Best wishes, Eric Harker
Dick Cheney Protest, April 2007
Many of us were surprised to hear that good, old-fashioned campus protests are alive and well at BYU—for a few students, anyway, during a certain time frame within the bounds of a so-called “free-speech zone.” But even the squeaky-clean Cougars couldn’t just stand by silently when Vice President Dick Cheney, party to so many of the wrong turns this country has taken over the past seven years, was invited as 2007 commencement speaker. A group of students pulled together a polite protest, which went off without a hitch until the free-speech zone disappeared at the allotted time—then, as the students tried to leave, they were hassled by campus security.
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