Wednesday May 26, 2004

Assistant VP for Happy-Feeling Making

“We feel that first and foremost, the commencement is a celebration of our graduates and their accomplishments. We regret that the contents of his speech diminished the day for some of our graduates and their families.”

—Melissa Connolly, assistant vice president for university relations at Hofstra University, where author E.L. Doctorow was booed on Sunday for a commencement address critical of the Iraq War. Because of course it was the speech that “diminshed the day” — not all the booing yahoos. (Link via Yahoo!, coincidentally.)