The winter commencement address at California State University at Sacramento on Saturday was cut short when some audience members, upset by the speaker’s remarks that were critical of the curtailment of civil liberties after September 11, began stomping and booing.
Janis Besler Heaphy, publisher and president of The Sacramento Bee, left the podium after getting through slightly more than half of her 10-minute speech.
Some audience members booed when she asked, “To what degree are we willing to compromise our civil liberties in the name of security?” The stomping began later, when Ms. Heaphy expressed concerns about racial profiling, and called proposed military tribunals “troubling.”
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