Grads walk out of U of M Law School senior day over Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) - video

http://michiganmessenger.com/48939/protesters-walk-out-of-u-of-m-law-school-graduation

Grads walk out of U of M Law School senior day
By Ed Brayton
05.11.11 | 7:22 am


More than 100 graduates of the University of Michigan Law School walked out of their own Senior Day celebration to protest the choice of Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a man with a long track record of anti-gay politics, as the speaker for the event.

The Ann Arbor Journal reports:

A small group of the seniors had an audience with the senator on Saturday morning, but in the end, the walkout still went down and it was even bigger than Andrew Selbst, unoffical spokesman for the protesting seniors, had hoped. His conservative estimate was that about 40 students would walk out, but more than 100 students joined him in the lobby while Portman spoke. About 60 percent of the graduates wore rainbow buttons or ribbons on their gowns or rainbow tassels on their caps…

Portman was not shouted down. When his name was mentioned in Caminker’s opening remarks, there were no audible boos. When Cormac Joseph Kerins paused briefly during his introduction of Portman, about a third of the graduating class filed into the lobby quietly. A senior who chose to sit through Portman’s speech gave the “all-clear” and the graduates quietly retook their seats in the auditorium.

Here’s a Youtube video showing the walkout:

Woverines!!! Those law school grads did a good thing. Portman and the other repukes need to be taught that civil rights are for everyone, not just the straight community.

Heartened by the protest. Heard Snyder did not get a friendly reception as well. U of M is currently a public institution. They still need state aid and the current governor is a Rethug. The Law School has the dubious "distinction" of having Ann Coulter as a graduate.

I am a true Maize and Blue Wolverine and their accommodation to the right is increasingly distressing.

But at least they fired Rodriguez -- there may yet be reason to "Hoke."

She's just a performance artist/freakshow. Cripes, I'm a Harvard Law alum and have to deal with having gone to the same school as Roberts, Alito, Gonzales and a bunch of other higher-ups in Chimpoleon's maladministration. Blech.

At least I graduated in the same class as the FLOTUS.

Ha.

However, I do have a 3 digit IQ and the roots to prove it.

Idealistically yours ----

But I could also say that I have the two-way video comment feature enabled. :-)

:applause:

:kick:

:thumbsup:

Think what you want of sports rivalries, I bleed scarlet and gray. Maybe OSU students will also walk out on Speaker Boehner in June. I graduated a quarter too early to do it.