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Gov’s Appearance Sparks Debate
The Lookout News ^ | June 22, 2005 | Ann Williams

Posted on 06/22/2005 1:45:27 PM PDT by MensRightsActivist

The governor is gone, but sparks are still flying at Santa Monica College as faculty and officials engage in a heated debate over whether to apologize for the raucous reception that greeted Arnold Schwarzenegger at this month's graduation ceremony.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: santamonicacollege
Should Santa Monica College issue a formal apology to Governor Schwarzenegger for the "un-Democratic" (to quote Bill Oreilly) behavior of a significant number of faculty, students and staff? ...and if a formal apology is not given should conservative protesters consider more action in this bastion of liberal, "un-Democratic" abusiveness?
1 posted on 06/22/2005 1:45:28 PM PDT by MensRightsActivist
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To: MensRightsActivist

Yes. And the apology should include the graduates! It was THEIR day that the ceremony was celebrating. They were selfish to create a furor at the expense of some one else.


2 posted on 06/22/2005 1:48:17 PM PDT by Godzilla (You're jealous because the Voices only speak to me)
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To: MensRightsActivist

Absolutely! Most people in the crowd wanted to hear the governor. They were denied the opportunity and for what? A premediated tantrum by those who can't stand to hear a differing point of view.
The spectacle reinforced the suspicion that colleges are bastions of political indoctrination rather than education. If this is not the case, the college should say so with an apology to the governor.


3 posted on 06/22/2005 2:20:35 PM PDT by RedRover (Yeah, buddy.)
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To: RedRover

Yikes! Make that "premeditated".


4 posted on 06/22/2005 2:22:00 PM PDT by RedRover (Yeah, buddy.)
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To: MensRightsActivist

Monica's already a saint? Wow, who'da thunk it.


5 posted on 06/22/2005 4:25:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Don't Tread on Me; Live Free or Die)
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To: MensRightsActivist

Oh, the scene was ALL Democracy. It was the ugly side of Democracy, the side that is evidence that the left is sliding steadily into oblivion. It goes hand in hand with Durbin's diatribe, Howard Dean as the Chair of the DNC, the Senate filibustering literally the day after agreeing not to, fill in the blanks here.

The end is near. By '08 we will have won.


6 posted on 06/22/2005 4:36:23 PM PDT by NHAntiMassRedRebel (Our only fault is that we're 40 minutes north of Boston.)
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