DC Commencement Circuit

Campus Report ^ | April 30, 2009 | Bethany Stots

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DC Commencement Circuit

Bethany Stotts, April 30, 2009

Happy graduates are about to go off to seek their fortunes in a not-so-friendly job market. But before they can pursue careers in business, writing, science and other fields, they must pass one last indoctrination hurdle: the commencement speech.

“If your university is like the majority of schools in the country, it is a bastion of liberalism. It is more than likely that your university has invited a leftist commencement speaker to have the honor of addressing your graduating class,” Bryan Bernys, National Field Director at the Leadership Institute, recently wrote on www.thecampusright.com.

He suggested that in such cases conservative students could

“create a post card or flyer to hand out to commencement guests” which outlines the speakers’ extreme views,

“get your campus or conservative student paper to write a story exposing the real views” of the speaker, or

“if your campus paper will not cover this story, write a story, editorial, or letter to the editor and submit it to any papers on campus as well as local papers.”

Accuracy in Academia has compiled a list of the commencement speakers at prestigious Washington, D.C. universities this year, lecturers who include Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.).

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Frankly American

Barney Frank, blamed by some for the credit crisis, is the commencement speaker this year at the American University School of Public Service and will receive an honorary degree. “The class of 2009 has left an unquestionable legacy of service to AU,” wrote four AU students in a letter to the student paper. “Yet the university, for reasons passing understanding, has seen fit to mark SPA's commencement into real life with a man, charitably described as a leader, whose poor ideas have led to a terrible disservice to the country.”...