From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.college
Title: Re: J. Kirkpatrick at U.C. Berkeley
Article-I.D.: floyd.1192
Posted: Thu Feb 17 13:05:45 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 06:53:53 1983
References: sun.203

Re: Hecklers

Oh, horrors.  I dare (DARE!) someone out there to give me one good
reason why someone at a talk like Jean Kirkpatrick's UCB talk should
heckle.  What possible gain is there for the heckler?  Attention?
Nonsense.  Why would a cause want to attract averse attention to
itself?

Heckling does not demonstrate the victim's guilt.  It doesn't
demonstrate the heckler's virtue.  Heckling just shows that the heckler
is inconsiderate, and is probably plagued by feelings of inferiority.
There are always ways of expressing yourself in a more effective way
than heckling.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491