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Dems object to choice of Sept. 11 memorial speaker

Dems say conservative professor Kagan politicizes event

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Published Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The choice of history professor Donald Kagan to give the keynote address at today’s Sept. 11 memorial service provoked the Yale College Democrats to withdraw its sponsorship of the event.

The College Democrats, who had co-sponsored the event last year alongside the College Republicans, declined to participate in the service after Kagan, a noted conservative, was invited to speak by the event organizers, Laura Marcus ’10 and Luke Palder ’09. The Dems said Kagan was too partisan a figure to speak at a memorial event, but Marcus and Palder said they invited Kagan because of his...

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