Saturday, May 12, 2007

Junior Can't Even Speak At A Small College....


....without protests.

It seems the administration knows that Junior isn't welcome anywhere, but with the military, where no on dare speak their minds, or at small out-of-the-way colleges.

Guess they can scratch small colleges from their list.

How the mighty have fallen.........

Bush Delivers Commencement Address While Students Protest War
May 11, 2007 4:23 p.m. EST
Linda Young - AHN Staff Writer

Latrobe, PA (AHN) - When a small Roman Catholic liberal arts college invited Pres. George W. Bush to give the spring commencement address it probably didn't anticipate that one of its students would choose not to finish a thesis to avoid graduating when Bush was the commencement speaker.

But that student wasn't the only one to join anti-war protests while Bush spoke at St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, Pa., on Friday.

Bush was warmly greeted inside the school gymnasium, but philosophy major Ronny Menzie, who chose to defer completing her theses, was outside on the road protesting with other students.

And students weren't alone in protesting Bush as the commencement speaker.

Some 30 current and former faculty of the tiny college signed an open letter criticizing Bush for his handling of the war, environment, poor and sick. They complained that linking Bush to the college tarnished its reputation.

But supporters said having Bush deliver the commencement address was an honor.

Bush advised graduates to serve their communities and help make the nation a better place to live saying that volunteering was important because: "You learn to take the initiative, instead of waiting for a government to step in."

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