“Some UVA students have launched an effort to challenge the selection of [Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson] in the name of protecting ‘diversity,’ complete with columns, an online petition drive and hints that they will disrupt graduation,” Karin wrote. “They sing the virtues of learning about people from different places with different points of view. Yet, when it comes to listening to someone with a reputation for being politically conservative, that supposed open-mindedness quickly dissipates.”
It is worth noting that the most obnoxious protests tend to take place at elite universities that cost $40,000 a year to attend. The spoiled brats who go to these schools are shocked—shocked!—that they can’t always hand-pick a commencement speaker who will echo their personal views. And if they can’t bully the administration into inviting the speaker they want, they respond with walk-outs, sign-waving, and verbal attacks—ruining the graduation ceremony for everyone else.
We need lectures from these people on proper decorum during commencement? I think not.