When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia arrived on Oct. 2 to give the 17th and final Richard E. Snyder President's Lecture, campus was already in an uproar over the guest. Students, equipped with chants and signs, assembled outside the Gantcher Center to protest the university's selection of Scalia as the speaker. A teach-in was scheduled for after the lecture, focusing on Scalia's originalism and his key role in the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act this summer.
[Scalia] is an immensely controversial figure," sophomore Greer Clem, executive board member of the Institute for Political Citizenship (IPC), said. "Our protests actively reflected the way that one should [protest], in a very intellectual and peaceful way."
James Glaser, dean of academic affairs for the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of political science, was glad to see what he called healthy campus activism surrounding the lecture.
"One of the protestors said to me, 'Oh, I didn't think you'd be happy with us,'" he said. "I think it's great. Absolutely, let's have a protest
