Posted on 05/14/2014 12:24:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Haverford College on Tuesday joined a growing list of schools to lose commencement speakers to protests from the left, when Robert J. Birgeneau, a former chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, withdrew from this weekend’s event.
Some students and faculty members at Haverford, a liberal arts college near Philadelphia, objected to the invitation to Mr. Birgeneau to speak and receive an honorary degree because, under him, the University of California police used batons to break up an Occupy protest in 2011. He first stated his support for the police, and then a few days later, saying that he was disturbed by videos of the confrontation, ordered an investigation.
Those at Haverford who objected to his being honored asked Mr. Birgeneau to apologize and to meet a list of demands, including leading an effort to train campus security forces in handling protests better; he refused.
Mr. Birgeneau bowed out a day after Smith College said that Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, had withdrawn from its commencement because of protests. Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, said this month she would not deliver the address at Rutgers University after the invitation drew objections. Last month, Brandeis University rescinded an invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born activist, over her criticism of Islam.
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I had to listen to a friggin’ leftist at my commencement. It didn’t change my way of thinking. What are these leftists worried about? When I was a kid, we used to have this wonderful thing called ‘America’. (sigh)
First on list:
Cut College funding...
Welcome to the fascist left.
> the University of California police used batons to break up an
> Occupy protest in 2011.
Awwww, poow widdew babies.
Imagine if they werre greeted with a hundred men with full auto assault rifles, sniper rifles, grenades, and armored vehicles, like Clieve Bundy was.
Cancel commencement, mail them their diplomas.
So in allowing this, Haverford University is implicitly agreeing that a university chancellor should automatically side with protestors in any clash between them and the police or security. No voicing support for the police, no investigating incidents before determining if the police went too far. Knee-jerk support the Occupy thugs because the cause they are supporting is liberally correct. I assume the next time a mob goes crazy on the Haverford campus, the chancellor will be out cheering them on as they disrupt classes and vandalize the campus rather than calling the police.
Oh, I know. If you believe in Jesus Christ, if you believe that only men and women should get married, if you are skeptical about man-made global warming, if you think that immigrants should follow that law AND learn English, if you believe that hard work should be rewarded, well, there is no ‘diversity’ for you. You have to be silenced.
The age of censorship is here.
Exactly True !!!
it is anything but a liberal arts--artes liberales--college in the true sense of the word--an education for a free man, the foundation for a free, self-governing people...
Cancel commencement, mail them their diplomas.
“””EXACTLY!!!!
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