Mukasey Draws Ire of Boston College Law Profs
Faculty and students from the Boston College Law School are together protesting the choice of U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey as this year's commencement speaker, the BC Heights reports. The faculty members critical of the speaker choice—who call the attorney general's views on waterboarding in "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"—have petitioned both the school administration and Mukasey himself to stop the event as planned.
"A commencement speaker is someone held up to the students and the world as an embodiment of the school," said a BC law professor. "It strikes me as very problematic that the school has invited a commencement speaker who refuses to acknowledge that waterboarding is a form of torture."
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Bigotry, pure and simple. Perhaps liberalism is indeed a virulent disease concentrated in areas where tenured liberals can make a mockery of the second amendment under the aegis of a Jesuit University. Perhaps we could all reread Cardinal Newman's "idea of a university" and realize that free speech is a two way street, achieved without emotion and with determined courtesy.
Faculty of BC law school: you're a disgrace to Americ and to theJesuit traditions
www.eagleionline.com
Check out of the coverage of the Mukasey controversy on BC Law's independent student newspaper and website: http://www.eagleionline.com/
The students there have been covering this issue for months and have posted dozens of articles quoting alumni, students, faculty, and officials.
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