On Monday, Boston College will have its commencement and graduates will gather to hear an address from Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the United States secretary of state.

She is arguably the highest-ranking African-American woman in the three centuries or so that African women have been present in America. She is the secretary of state of the most powerful nation on earth. She is discussed regularly as a candidate to be president of the United States.

Yet 200 or so students at Boston College, along with some professors, will be protesting her presence at Boston College, protesting especially the school conferring upon her an honorary doctorate.

Why? The students say they object to her presence because she doesn't represent their values.

An adjunct professor and part-time novelist named Steve Almond actually quit over her appearance saying in his resignation letter that he and others object to her because she is a liar.

As far as the professor goes, I spoke to him on my radio show — until he hung up on me — and the college should consider his resignation good riddance.

When it comes to the students we have to consider some facts. These are students whose parents have paid upwards of a $1,000 a week for them to be in the school. They have lived protected and sheltered lives. They didn't suffer an attack on 9/11.

They haven't fought the wars that followed. They have virtually no experience in life, except what happened before they left home and what happened when the college professors got hold of them.

Condoleezza Rice helped free more women in Afghanistan and Iraq than anybody has ever freed in the history of man. She is playing a major role in a solution to the war in Darfur.

Condi Rice doesn't represent their values. I should say not, since their values seem to be intolerance, closed-mindedness and the cocksureness of youth that allows a college student to pass judgment on a secretary of state.

"Nitwits of the Week" go to the students and professors of Boston College who will protest Condi Rice on Monday when they should be listening attentively and thinking. They might want to try it sometime. Listening and thinking certainly can't hurt.

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I say good riddance also. This gives me a great idea. I think she should be giving speeches at a bunch of universities and hopefully a who shit load of educated dummies will quit.

I think you're right.

Send Condi on a national University Speech Tour. Let's clean house on some of these Whorehouses of Indoctrination they call colleges.

"educated dummies"?

hmmm, something just stands out when you consider your political opposition to be credited intellectuals...and then you call them "educated dummies."

Let's all hate on one professor and a couple hundred students for making a political statement because we all know that political statements are the work of the Great Satan.

Quitting one's job over an unpopular or disliked speaker is silly.

So making political statements are silly?

Quitting your job is a dumb assed political statement. Does she honestly think Condoleeza Rice cares? I don't like the Bush administration, but I'm not about to quit my job over it.

The students sound like they're still young and idealistic, untainted by the values of the 'real' world, and if their parents are paying $1000 a week to have them go to school, perhaps they are going to be part of the next generation of wealth and power in this country.
With their convictions, maybe they'll get out and make a real difference in the world, not just live for the sake of money.

People quit their jobs all the time because of political motivations...what are you talking about?

It isn't that they don't like "her values". They probably don't like war criminals visiting campus too much.