Staff / TruthdigMay 20, 2006
The Arizona senator got heavily jeered during his commencement address for a New York university. One student banner read, "Our commencement is not your platform." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 14, 2006
Almond, an adjunct professor at Boston College, has resigned his post to protest the college's choice of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker. "I cannot, in good conscience, exhort my students to pursue truth and knowledge, then collect a paycheck from an institution that displays such flagrant disregard for both," he writes.
Imagine if Colin Powell or George Tenet had shown this kind of moral fortitude. There might not have been a war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 11, 2006
Now the Arizona senator says it's "an honor" to speak at the college of Jerry Falwell's, the same man he once called an "agent of intolerance." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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