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Howard interrupted Wen 10 minutes into his speech by unfurling a Tibetan flag she had smuggled past security in her pants and shouting “Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people...
Howard said the same day she found out about her impending Ad Board case, the Tibetan Assocation of Boston honored her with a white silk scarf called a katag, a sign of respect in Tibet...
...tell you about Meghan C. Howard ’04, the student who was recently threatened with administrative action by the University for unfurling a Tibetan flag and telling Wen that Tibet belongs to the Tibetans. My blonde-haired roommate from upstate New York has been a devout Tibetan Buddhist since childhood. One night at the dinner table sophomore year, she noticed some peculiar deposits on the mixed greens in her salad, which she recognized as caterpillar eggs. Instead of throwing them away as you or I would have done, she cared for them until they hatched into little green...
...think of few people as gentle, level-headed and sincerely concerned about respecting life as Meghan Howard. She is no fire-breathing activist who enjoys rebelling against order and embarrassing the University. She was practically hyperventilating with nervousness the night before, but she loves the Tibetan people enough to step out of her comfort zone to demand respect for their human rights. Ad Board or no Ad Board, thank goodness that at least one country on earth respects her right to do so, since people in China cannot speak for themselves...
...President Lawrence H. Summers showed his courage by asking a protester to respect Wen’s right to speak. I admire you, President Summers, for standing up for him. By the way, did you get a chance to show the same integrity by asking Wen to respect the Tibetan people’s right to speak...