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0 9 - 0 6 - 2 0 0 5 Schwarzenegger Speech Plans Cause Friction
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
LOS ANGELES -- Long before making "The Terminator," Arnold Schwarzenegger was a young Austrian bodybuilder hitting the books at Santa Monica College in the early 1970s. But the governor's planned return next week to deliver a commencement address at the two-year community college near the beach is turning into something less than a homecoming.
A faculty group declared that Schwarzenegger "threatened academic freedom," and protests are being organized around the June 14 event.
The school took the awkward step Monday of issuing a statement defending the choice of the Republican governor to address the 600 graduates.
"It's particularly fitting that he be our speaker this year because it's our 75th anniversary and the college has put a spotlight on alumni," said interim President Thomas J. Donner.
The school's alumni include Dustin Hoffman and Rickie Lee Jones.
Asked about friction at the school, Schwarzenegger's chief spokeswoman Margita Thompson said in an e-mail that the "governor is planning on giving the speech."
Schwarzenegger, elected in 2003, has seen his popularity slide as he pushes proposals to cap state spending and make it harder for teachers to gain tenure. He's been feuding with groups he calls "special interests" - teachers, nurses and other public employee unions who accuse him of shortchanging education, health care and other programs.
"The governor continues to take the position that he is the education governor. Our position is he hasn't shown that," said Kenneth Mason, a Santa Monica College history professor who's part of a faculty-student group that wants the invitation withdrawn. "His education proposals are all wrongheaded."
Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, warned that the former actor is "going to have to talk loudly because there's going to be a lot of noise."
Schwarzenegger took general studies classes at the college between 1970 and 1974. He earned a degree in 1979 by taking correspondence courses through the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
1 5 - 0 6 - 2 0 0 5 Schwarzenegger jeered at graduation speech
MICHAEL R. BLOOD
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Politics followed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to his alma mater Tuesday, where he was jeered relentlessly by protesters while delivering a commencement speech.
His address to 600 graduates in blue robes and caps at Santa Monica College turned into an exercise in perseverance, as virtually his every word was accompanied by catcalls, howls and piercing whistles from the audience of several thousand people watching the graduation.
Schwarzenegger's face appeared to redden during the 15-minute speech, but he ignored the shouting while recalling his days as a student in the early 1970s and, later, his work as a bodybuilder and actor.
"Always go all out and overcome your fears," he told the graduates. "Work, work, work. Study, study, study."
At least 200 protesters gathered by the entrance to the college's outdoor stadium where the ceremony was held. They ridiculed Schwarzengger's education policies and plans to hold a special election later this year. Meanwhile, other protesters were scattered around the stadium and on nearby streets.
Inside the stadium, the drone from hundreds of rowdy protesters threatened to drown out the governor's voice at times. Many in the crowd erupted in boos when a police officer pulled down a banner criticizing the estimated $45 million cost of the special Nov. 8 election that Schwarzenegger scheduled Monday.
The governor is backing three ballot initiatives that call for imposing a cap on state spending, stripping lawmakers of the power to draw their own districts and increasing the time it takes teachers to gain tenure.
At times during Schwarzenegger's speech, cheers and boos mingled, and the graduates themselves appeared eager to hear the governor, Many applauded at one point when the noise from the bleachers briefly subsided.
"It didn't matter. I just ignored them," graduate Ray Lewis, 21, of Los Angeles, said when asked about the racket from protesters. Schwarzenegger's "political views and all that had nothing to do with the graduation," Lewis said.
Schwarzenegger has been feuding for months with groups he calls "special interests" - teachers, nurses and other public employee unions who accuse him of selling out to big business while shortchanging education, health care and other programs. Those groups have hounded Schwarzenegger at his public appearances, sometimes attracting crowds in the thousands.
The special election "is a waste of money that you could be using for education, hospital care. He's wasting it on his vanity election," said Sue Cannon, a nurse at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, who was among the crowd outside the stadium. About two dozen Schwarzenegger supporters also rallied outside the stadium.
The ceremony "should be about the students," said Ben Eisenberg, who heads the Santa Monica College Republicans.
Schwarzenegger left the stage almost immediately after his speech, speeding across the infield in a golf cart surrounded by sprinting security guards. Across the field, he pulled up toward a waiting SUV and a large steel gate was closed behind him.
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