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Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was met with a wave of boos Sunday when students at Duke University in North Carolina walked out just before his commencement speech, the latest in a wave of anti-war protests that took place at college graduations across the country this weekend. Seinfeld, 70, was not only delivering the speech at the school’s football stadium but was also receiving an honorary degree from the school, where his son is currently enrolled and his daughter previously graduated.
Columbia University officials called police back to campus to disperse the protest after students took over Hamilton Hall, a building that had also been taken by student protesters in the 1968 demonstration that inspired organizers. The university later cancelled its own commencement. This weekend graduations across the country were marked with their own anti-war demonstrations.
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