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Friday, April 25, 2008


Friedman leaving pie-tosser in Brown's hands


Perhaps she should be sentenced to a solitary section of a vegan collaborative household.

BeloBlog reports:

PROVIDENCE -- New York Times columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman says he'll leave it for Brown to decide what to do with a student who threw a green whipped cream pie at him during a speech earlier this week.

Friedman says he isn't pressing charges against Margaree Little, a 22-year-old English literature major.

Little says she's undergoing disciplinary action by the dean's office and expulsion is ``not off the table.''

Little and an unidentified man threw pies at Friedman as he opened an Earth Day speech Tuesday at Brown.

She says they were protesting Friedman's support of biofuels, although Friedman has written about taking a careful approach to biofuels to ensure biodiversity. She also says they were hoping to open up a dialogue about what it really means to have free speech on an elite college campus.




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