Too bad Hillary couldn’t take a break from meeting with “everyday Americans,” but I’m sure Bill is available for the low-low price of just $100 million.
Via The Daily Caller
Almost 50 professors at St. John Fisher College in western New York have signed a letter objecting to the administration’s invitation to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to deliver the May 9 commencement address and receive an honorary degree.
School president Donald Bain has brushed off the faculty opposition and said he has no plans to cancel Giuliani’s appearance or the conferment of the symbolic degree.
St. John Fisher is situated “on 154 park-like acres” in Pittsford, N.Y., a quiet and comfortable suburb of Rochester. It is home to some 2,900 undergrads.
The April 17 letter signed by 49 professors chides Giuliani because the famously straight-talking mayor spoke bluntly about President Barack Obama at a February fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker.
“I do not believe the president loves America,” the faculty letter quotes Giuliani as charging. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”[…]
Local public television station WXXI discussed faculty opposition to Giuliani’s commencement address with Jill Swiencicki, an associate professor of women and gender studies at St. John Fisher.
“We simply don’t believe Mr. Giuliani’s racially divisive speech needs to be held up and honored with an honorary degree,” Swiencicki, a signatory of the letter, told WXXI.
On her personal Facebook page, Swiencicki is a member of a number of groups including Occupy Rochester NY, Feminist Campus and FatFree Vegan.
Bain, the St. John Fisher president, said the administration remains unmoved by the faculty protest.