Comments on “Googled: Distinguished guests”
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Posted by Beth Marie Reifers on May 18, 2006
It’s a sad reflection of BC’s values when individuals such as Rice are given honorary doctorates when they have brought so much pain and destruction to the world via the genocide of the Iraqi people. Rice doesn’t deserve a first aid bandage.
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Posted by Patricia M. Sullivan on May 18, 2006
I am pleased that Boston College has reached out to recognize the values and merits of Dr. Rice. As a woman raised in the segregated South, Rice has become the most visible and powerful woman in the world. She clearly represents the new and improved Boston College…a place of racial, ethnic and spiritual diversity. Perhaps her address will be long remembered. Cokie Robert’s ( ’94) was easily forgotten.
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Posted by Zita K. Kelley on May 24, 2006
It was bad enough that the chosen commencement speaker was someone so deeply implicated in an unjust and immoral war, but to have to listen to a recycled version of her Vanderbilt 2004 commencement speech (which only was spiced up by a few ‘local color’ comments about bars and football rivalry) was an added insult. If this speech will be remembered, it’s because it was a repeat performance. Shame on BC!