Recently student demonstrators repeatedly disrupted a lecture on Iran by U. Michigan professor of politics emeritus Raymond Tanter. Their shouts and taunts included the refrain, “Tanter is a pig.” Kathryn Babayan, an associate professor of Near Eastern studies at the campus, sat with the demonstrators as a sign of solidarity and insulted Tanter personally from the floor. Winfield Myers of Campus Watch recounts this nasty tale, lambasting “hecklers bent on denying students their right to hear scholarly lectures on university property” and academics like Babayan, “whose behavior so violated the obligations of her vocation.”