Free Republic

By JIM McCAFFREY The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Villanova University — A renovated study space in the main library of Villanova University is being dedicated tomorrow to the memory of a woman who slashed her six-month old Down syndrome daughter’s throat — twice — and later killed herself. Villanova’s director of public relations and communications defends the dedication as an act of “compassion.” The vice president of the Board of Trustees, Herbert Aspbury, said he could not comment because the first he heard of the dedication was when he was contacted by this newspaper. The woman who organized the memorial, Christine...