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Excerpt from www.thecollegefix.com
Handful of students at University of Vermont and Xavier University now in charge
Two universities recently let students issue a heckler’s veto and stop planned graduation speeches by President Joe Biden’s ambassador to the United Nations.
But there was a better way to handle the situation.
University of Vermont will no longer host UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield as its keynote speaker this upcoming weekend following backlash from pro-Palestinian activists.
“Protesters had demanded that Thomas-Greenfield be removed as the university’s commencement speaker, saying that the ambassador was complicit in the U.S.’ decision to veto three U.N. resolutions calling for a cease-fire in Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war,” the VTDigger reported.
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