Make Poetry, Not War Maureen Dowd

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HEADLINE: Make Poetry, Not War
BYLINE: By MAUREEN DOWD
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It was a rough crowd for agents of American imperialism.
At the New School commencement at Madison Square Garden's theater yesterday afternoon, dozens of the red-and-black-gowned graduates and some faculty were heckling, cackling, hissing, booing, jeering, whooping, bolting, turning their backs and holding up orange signs that read, ''Our commencement is not your platform.'' As for John McCain, he spoke about how the ''passion for self-expression sometimes overwhelms our civility.''
''We're graduating, not voting,'' one young man yelled.
''This is all about you,'' another called out. ''We don't care.''
A little while after the senator quoted Yeats about the fleeting nature of beauty, a student sarcastically called out, ''More poetry.''
First, Mr. McCain and the New School's president, Bob Kerrey, were slapped around by a student speaker, Jean Sara Rohe, a 21-year-old from Nutley, N.J., who sang a lyric from a peace song and then abandoned her original remarks to talk about the ''outrage'' over Mr. McCain's speaking gig.
''The senator does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded,'' Ms. Rohe said, adding: ''I am young, and although I don't profess to possess the wisdom that time affords us, I do know that pre-emptive war is dangerous and wrong.''
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