A student-faculty protest against the University of North Dakota law school's refusal to allow a Lakota drum ceremony at graduation "seemed like overkill," The Grand Forks Herald says in an editorial.

The paper says the ceremony could have been a nice addition to the commencement exercises. "Having said that, the protest that greeted the "no" decision seemed more confrontational than the decision deserved. It turned the request for the performance into a demand - a demand backed up armband-wearing protesters marching on the administration building, a tactic honed in the antiwar and civil-rights movements," the paper says.

Native students were upset that the school denied the request. Officials are reconsidering.

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