HAYWARD / Graduation speaker pressured, bows out / Some CSU students threatened boycott over his views

Feels like Pitzer c. 1993. Where's Jose Calderon?
Rodriguez is a great writer-- and I can read him even while disagreeing with him. Wow, imagine that- the ability to listen to voices that oppose your own.
HAYWARD / Graduation speaker pressured, bows out / Some CSU students threatened boycott over his views: "Writer Richard Rodriguez, invited to speak at the California State University East Bay commencement in Hayward on Saturday, has decided to withdraw from the program after some graduating students threatened to boycott the event."