Page 12-Wednesday, May 3, 1978-The Michigan Daily Graduation: Lea An arena full of sweltering graduates, friends and relatives heard Vice President Walter Mondale extoll the value of universities as the birth places for such government programs as John Kennedy's Peace Corps and Lydon John- son's Great Society during last week's commencement exer- cises. The 1978 grads and spectators got particularly hot under robe and collar when a small group of protestors interrupted Mondale's keynote speech with chants like "We know you're on (South African Prime Minister) Vorster's side." Parents and students joined in hissing and booing the dissenters as they stood under signs reading "Fight Imperialism and National Oppression" and "UM-USA Out of South Africa." IN HIS SPEECH, Monday praised the "skepticism" of the academic community and trabed the growth of the gover- nment's programs to the university. He told the packed crowd in Crisler Arena that the country "will languish unless we apply what we have learned in schools like this." Before he left hurriedly for an Asian trip, Mondale said "The unrestrained growth of nuclear weapons must be stop- ped now," and added the country's goals "are not served by. jingoistic sabre-rattling Mondale recalled th twice during the speec man." THE VICE PRESID of laws degree, as wa Astronomer E. Margar honorary science degra "Instead of trading to t and stones of our own cu words for their familis nings into the symbols tl Mondale told the as example of the sorto graduates would have to native sources of energ would have to be used. Mondale's speech, w human rights, was inte three times by hecklers.. by the interruptions, say)