Talks, student consensus helped Syracuse handle D'Amato flap
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Students and the school administration are satisfied with how Syracuse University law students handled removing Senator Alfonse D'Amato as their commencement speaker. When the senator angered many students with an Asian-accent mocking of Judge Lance Ito on a syndicated radio show, the school decided to let students, who had selected D'Amato, make their own decision. The graduating students held a meeting, then a referendum, where they decided to have no speaker. D'Amato's son Christopher will be among the 246 graduating students.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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Nun, high school dropout offer words of wisdom to graduates
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Speakers at law school commencements in 1996 ran the gamut from Sister Helen Prejean, a nun and well-known death penalty opponent, to Ted Turner, college dropout, later chairman of Turner Broadcasting Systems and founder of the Cable News Network (CNN). Other speakers included Louis Freeh, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and David J. Stern National Basketball Ass'n Commissioner.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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