Friday, May 26, 2006

raucus at st. thomus.

From Inside Higher Education on May 24th.
A Commencement Turns Ugly
When people cry at graduation, it’s supposed to be the happy kind of tears.

That wasn’t the case Saturday at the University of St. Thomas, when the student speaker at the Saint Paul, Minn., institution’s graduation ceremony used his address to denounce as “selfish” those women who use the birth control pill. St. Thomas has been divided this semester by a debate over whether the Roman Catholic institution was correct to ban unmarried employees traveling together with students from sharing a room, so issues of sexual morality have been front and center at the institution. The student speaker also denounced as selfish those unmarried couples covered by the policy who had wanted to share a room with a partner.

Students and family members were shocked by the speech — and some left their own graduation in tears. Others booed or shouted. Still others are angry that the university administrator who followed the student speaker appeared to many to endorse his views. Read the rest here...
The best part about it is that the entire speech was captured on video and posted on YouTube. You can check it out here...
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 26, 2006 at 9:03 PM

    1. Did you hear Scholar's (Scholars'?) is closing? ASAP, apparently. Hudson's bought them out. Look out for the new Hudson's on 87th Ave. Wa frickin' hoo.

    2. Why were you carrying a plant past Scholar's tonight?

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  2. EX-NDIPMay 27, 2006 at 9:38 AM

    There's no shortage of nutbars making speaches, here's another one . . .


    LONDON, May 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - British pop music star Elton John has attacked the Catholic Church and its position on condom use as a reason for the demise of 60 of his friends to the sexually-transmitted disease, AIDS.

    How many of you folks have lost sixty friends to AIDS???

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  3. davebertaMay 27, 2006 at 10:42 AM

    "1. Did you hear Scholar's (Scholars'?) is closing? ASAP, apparently. Hudson's bought them out. Look out for the new Hudson's on 87th Ave. Wa frickin' hoo."

    Really? THat's kinda lame. I'm not a very big fan of the Hudson's...

    "2. Why were you carrying a plant past Scholar's tonight?"

    I was helping a friend move. We decided not to stick the plants in the back of the U-Haul.

    You?

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