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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  3 Students Face U-Md. Action For Shouting at Lynne Cheney Speech Sun Apr 4 2004 22:55:30 ET Three University of Maryland students are facing disciplinary action for shouting questions and comments at the vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, the WASHINGTON POST is reporting in Monday runs. There was no open microphone at Cheney's Feb.29 appearance, and guests had been told to submit questions for her in writing. Instead, two of the students called out their questions -- one on gay marriage, the other on slave reparations. A third student loudly uttered a vulgarity in response to one of Cheney's answers. Two of the students said they have been accused of "disorderly or disruptive conduct," under a university policy designed to protect the rights of speakers from being shouted off stage or drowned out by contentious audience members. The students said that they weren't disrupting Cheney's speech -- that they were just asking questions. And their case has drawn the scrutiny of civil liberties advocates, who say the university's action infringes on the students' right to free speech. "What the university officials appear to have done appears not only to be in violation of their own speech code, but also of the First Amendment," said Susan Goering, executive director of Maryland's ACLU. "All of these guys were just speaking out of turn." Cheney's speech was taped for C-SPAN and CNN. |
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