5/23/2004

You read it here first: Today at Yale's Class Day, Keynote Speaker Ken Burns delivered, to repeated and riotous applause, a clever and moving speech which included an impassioned and poetic condemnation of the dangerous course down which unjustified military aggression abroad and suppression of dissent at home are leading this country. Warning that America's greatest threats come from within, he blasted a corporate and consumerist media and an ahistorical and extremist political establishment. And the crowd - made up of graduates, students, faculty, administrators, and family and friends of President Bush's alma mater - loved it. Afterwards, several of us gathered to protest as Bush, who chose not to attend the ceremonies, entered Sage Hall for a meeting with Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead (the topic? Bush-Brodhead 2004? Who knows...). There was one guy one the other side of the street yelling "Four more years!," but he seemed lonely.

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