Protestors

Yesterday the Middle East Studies Program lecture series drew its first protestors. It was rather fun when we got to the question-and-answer period and the speaker drowned confrontational questions in knowledge of the situation. At the end, the chair was calling the event to and end, but Dr. Olson asked to take a question from a protestor in the back who'd had his hand up for awhile. The guy asked about the real reasons we went into Iraq, and as Olson went into his answer, the questioner interrupted and demanded he give a clear answer within the next seven words. Dr. Olson indicated that he didn't have to answer according to any particular rules and stopped. That was probably what the quote about "his refusal to answer questions" referred to.