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Edition
It's ok to have commencement speakers that support the premeditated barbaric murder of unborn children but let's not have speakers who might support scaring terrorists, who have killed thousands and who could save thousands, into thinking they are going to die. (Continued…)
I have to agree with Tom L. Everytime anyone remotely conservative comes as a commencment speaker (remember Secretary Rice at my graduation?) the super liberal members of the faculty throw a fit. (Continued…)
We are still reviewing the Attorney General's remarks. His presentation is at its best when imbued with his delightfully acerbic NYC humor, but, like Youngstown Sheet + Tube's sliding scale perigee, at its nadir when proposing recitation of historical facts. (Continued…)
Commencement speakers, particularly politicians, frequently stir opposition on college campuses. In 2006, hundreds of Boston College students protested the invitation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (Continued…)
As the petition says we realize that you face complex professional difficulties in your position as Attorney General. It is evident.
In 1987, Mukasey was nominated as a federal district judge for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan by President Ronald Reagan; he took the bench in 1988. (Continued…)
One thing to consider is this: The petition read, "We realize that you face complex professional difficulties in your position as Attorney General. We are very concerned, however, that your role in the current controversy regarding the how to build muscle legality of waterboarding has made you a symbol of Administration policies that conflict with basic principles of international and domestic law, the ideals of Boston College Law School, and the Jesuit principles that underlie Boston College's educational mission. (Continued…)
BrehonOD
Jim O'Donnell BCLaw 1978
posted 3/27/08 @ 12:34 PM EST
I commend the faculty, as opposed to the administration, of the Law School for speaking out about the selection of a commencement speaker whose actions before Congress belittle and belie the function for which lawyers are trained - to seek the truth. (Continued…)