Making a principled stand to appear at a place like Rutgers University is like making a principled stand on behalf of tuberculosis.
She probably shouldn’t have accepted the invitation in the first place.
She wasn't the commencement speaker either. The student events group did give her $32,000 to give a talk, though.
If she had been commencement speaker, I'm not entirely sure she would have been worse than the run of Democrat politicians who usually fill that role.