27th May 2004, 12:39 PM
We're not talking about what's the right or wrong thing to do, we're talking about whether they were violating Doctorow's right to freedom of speech. I don't think they were, because they weren't threatening him or physically forcing him to stop speaking, they were only voicing their disaproval of what he was saying. Maybe they didn't like his views are maybe they didn't like the fact that he was using the graduation commencement as a political platform, either way they were exericising their freedom of speach to show this dissaproval and he should just accept that they didn't want to hear what he had to say.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.