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