Vice President Cheney will be at Penn today to help dedicate the Wharton School's new Huntsman Hall. Protestors have been preparing all week. Some are camping out on College Green--the Scene of Protest--in order not to miss any of the morning's activist festivities (the dedication ceremony begins at the activism-unfriendly hour of 7 am). As one student put it: "We want to continually remind the campus that the most dangerous vice president in history is coming to campus, and it's kind of our duty to speak out against him." To kind of assist that effort of continual reminding, Penn for Peace has acquired a parodic ten foot tall Cheney puppet, which effigy is perhaps intended to convey the notion that Cheney is himself a puppet--albeit a shorter one. The puppet is also intended as a commentary on Cheney's purportedly inflated ego. One student interpreted its larger-than-life scowl thus: "To me, it looks like Cheney's angry at the world and is abusing his power." Counter-protestors will be out in full force today as well. They have no puppets, but they will pass out erasers, which they plan to toss at protesting mathematics lecturer Stephen Preston, whose nasty screed against Cheney was published by the Daily Pennsylvanian as part of the campus' preparation for today.

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