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Columbus Day protest at Brown Univ.
Holiday removed from school's calendar
Updated: Monday, 12 Oct 2009, 5:23 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 12 Oct 2009, 2:33 PM EDT
A decision to strip Columbus Day from the Brown University calendar because of the explorer's violence
against Native Americans sparks a protest at the Ivy League school.
A group of student Republicans are planning a protest Friday afternoon to object to the university's decision to rename the holiday "Fall Weekend."
Keith Dellagrotta, a Brown senior who leads the school's College Republicans club, described the decision as political correctness gone too far. He said Columbus should be celebrated for bringing the European political tradition to the New World, which led to the foundation of the United States.
Hundreds of Brown students asked the Providence school to stop observing Columbus Day because of atrocities committed against American Indians.
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