WASHINGTON: Dozens of students at Indiana's Notre Dame University protested White House policies on Sunday by walking out of a commencement speech by Vice President Mike Pence, who criticized political correctness at American colleges.

The members of the graduating class—dressed in cap and gowns together with some two thousand classmates—stood up and quietly left the school's football stadium when Pence began delivering his speech, videos posted online showed. Others cheered and some booed.

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