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SURVEY: Zero conservatives selected to deliver 2013 commencement speeches at Ivy Leagues
Campus Reform ^ | May 21, 2013 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 05/21/2013 3:15:45 PM PDT by grundle

The list of keynote commencement speakers at Ivy League institutions for 2013 does not include a single conservative, a recent study authored by the conservative Young America’s Foundation (YAF) found.

Instead seven of the elite schools opted to invite ideological liberal speakers such as media billionaire Oprah Winfrey, Vice President Joe Biden (D), Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D), Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I), among others.

Only Brown University, which chooses a commencement keynote from among its students, did not have a 2013 speaker who is generally associated with the left.

YAF spokesman Adam Tragone told Campus Reform on Tuesday the list appears to reveal a larger trend of liberal bias occurring on these campuses.

“I think it is sort of indicative of the whole way it seems like Ivy Leagues have been treating conservatives as of late,” said Tragone. “With all these sex talks at Yale, it seems like conservative values on these campuses are non-existent.”

Last year, a Campus Reform investigation found that 96 percent of the faculty and staff at Ivy League schools who contributed to the 2012 presidential race donated to President Obama’s campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: adamtragone; booker; campusreform; corybooker; homosexualagenda; joebiden; liberalbigots; michaelbloomberg; oprahwinfrey; projihadistleague; tbone
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1 posted on 05/21/2013 3:15:45 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

I’m guessing not many Jews were giving commencement speeches at German universities in 1939.


2 posted on 05/21/2013 3:19:31 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: grundle; oliverdarcy

Ollie used to pimp his own blog here until he got tired of being called out for self-promotion and pimping:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:oliverdarcy/index?tab=articles


3 posted on 05/21/2013 3:21:00 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: grundle

This easily explains why so many graduates from the elite schools imagine that America’s leaders are schizophrenic ~ ‘cause that’s the only ones they hear from!


4 posted on 05/21/2013 3:22:22 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: grundle
Let me tell you how this happens, Conservative students not getting involved in their college campuses speakers committees.
Conservatives on campuses should get as involved as the liberals are in colleges.
5 posted on 05/21/2013 3:33:00 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: grundle
No, they've got it all wrong. These people are all moderates.
6 posted on 05/21/2013 3:36:27 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: grundle

I can tell you that at my Catholic university, I cannot think of a single conservative invited to speak in the last two years. I got Victor Davis Hanson and Walter Williams here by finegling private grants.


7 posted on 05/21/2013 3:43:03 PM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: grundle

I saw a bumper sticker on a vehicle recently “I (heart) equality.” What made it extra comical was the selection of college decals in the window, too, none of which was an inexpensive option.


8 posted on 05/21/2013 3:47:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: grundle

Is it my imagination, or did Dr. Ben Carson go into
witness protection. He was all anyone could talk about here
about two months ago, then poof...gone.


9 posted on 05/21/2013 3:49:20 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: grundle
it's not news... if one DOES speak at one, THAT will be news
10 posted on 05/21/2013 4:04:09 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: grundle

I can’t remember when the Ivies had a conservative speak at graduation


11 posted on 05/21/2013 4:05:18 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: grundle

Things will make much more sense if you research the Ivy League schools, covering the last century or so.

Founders, funders, endowments. Who were they and what were their purposes.

He who controls the dollars makes the agenda.

The Ivy League schools went off the rails in the 1800’s.


12 posted on 05/21/2013 4:17:21 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: grundle

Is there a reason conservatives would want to? I’m having a problem thinking of one.


13 posted on 05/21/2013 4:42:39 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: grundle; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; SunkenCiv; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; Yaelle; Kenny Bunk; ...
Zero conservatives selected to deliver 2013 commencement speeches at Ivy Leagues.

No news there!!!

Any Ivy League alum FReepers out there? Or are they all in Washington working as Obama appointees?

14 posted on 05/21/2013 5:16:23 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: cripplecreek

bingo!


15 posted on 05/21/2013 5:30:39 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: grundle
Not really surprising. When the universities aren't angling for money from liberal politicians, their presidents are angling for government appointments from liberal politicians.

I'd distinguish, though, between people whose whole life is politics and those whose lives not so political at all, like the actor Jerry Adler (of The Sopranos), or people's record is more complicated than that, like Bill Cosby.

Key fact here: Corey Booker is speaking at three colleges this commencement season. Somebody is really promoting him for something.

16 posted on 05/21/2013 5:51:22 PM PDT by x
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To: justiceseeker93

Justice, I’m a Brunonian. Headed to Providence on FRI for 3 days of campus life.

Applied Math .. Physics and Econ. Econ dept had a solid group of free marketeers and supply-siders in my day.


17 posted on 05/21/2013 7:40:37 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (we're the Beatniks now)
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To: justiceseeker93

Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, La. He earned bachelor’s degrees in biology and public policy at Brown University and a master’s from Oxford University.


18 posted on 05/21/2013 8:05:00 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (we're the Beatniks now)
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To: justiceseeker93

The regime frowns upon diversity of thought. Such a thing would be thoughtcrime..


19 posted on 05/22/2013 12:24:49 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: grundle

William F. Buckley, Jr. was my commencement speaker, but that was quite a while back, and not an Ivy League school.


20 posted on 05/22/2013 12:42:41 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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