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Justice's job eclipses outdated allegationsAs opposed to the usual under-qualified choice, the University chose a sitting justice on the Supreme Court to speak at this year's graduation. I pray the University and this paper do not obsess on 17-year-old allegations of sexual harassment (as the Senate did), and instead, they focus on the grand accomplishments of this man from rural Georgia....

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Lucas R. Matthews

posted 4/22/08 @ 8:11 AM EST

Hey James Baker: guess who DOESN'T choose the graduation speaker? Michael Adams. Quit being an idiot and using the usual scapegoat. I guess it's just easier to be ignorant and never look for real answers.
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Fall 07 Grad

posted 4/22/08 @ 9:21 AM EST

Here's an idea for a graduation speaker, do what we did last fall. Have one of your own students speak. To tell you the truth, I have no idea who the "big key note speaker" was because his speech sucked. Patrick Scott however, was a graduate in our class and he captivated the audience using humor and witicism. If he'd asked for a donation, he would have received money from everyone there without question. Let's put it this way, I'd never heard of him before that faithful Saturday, but Patrick Scott is a name I'll never forget. I've attended 4 graduation ceremonies at the University of Georgia and he was by far the best, even better than my personal friend Senator Saxby Chambliss. The question is not "why do we need Clarence Thomas", the question should be "why do we need anyone at all?"
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Kacie

posted 4/22/08 @ 10:01 AM EST

Jason Hewell, if you were half as intelligent as you think you are, you would realize the difference between a conviction and the truth. Just because he wasn't convicted does not mean he was innoccent.

Also, just because he didn't do it doesn't mean the case won't be on all our minds during our graduation.
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Fall 07 Graduate

posted 4/22/08 @ 10:25 AM EST

I agree with the previous Fall 07 Grad that the student commencement speaker in the fall was by far the highlight of the day! If I remember correctly, his name was actually Kevin Scott, and his email address was KPSCOTT@UGA.EDU. For those of you at the commencement, you probably remember that email address--- I know I will for a long time.
Thanks again to Kevin for entertaining and inspiring our class and making my graduation ceremony a little more bearable!
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Fall 07 Grad

posted 4/22/08 @ 10:59 AM EST

Originally posted by

Fall 07 Graduate

 I agree with the previous Fall 07 Grad that the student commencement speaker in the fall was by far the highlight of the day! If I remember correctly, his name was actually Kevin Scott, and his email address was KPSCOTT@UGA.EDU. For those of you at the commencement, you probably remember that email address--- I know I will for a long time.
Thanks again to Kevin for entertaining and inspiring our class and making my graduation ceremony a little more bearable!


that's it, KPSCOTT. I had it backwards in my mind, but I remembered most of it, which is more than I can say about any other speaker. Thanks for the correction!
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Natalie B.

posted 4/22/08 @ 12:30 PM EST

The idea that our justice system is perfect and that someone is innocent unless they get convicted is outlandish. Just because the Senate didn't take Anita Hill's testamony seriously enough in 1991 to keep Thomas out of the Supreme Court doesn't mean the University should follow their lead. This is just another wonderful example of victim blaming where Thomas gets off because he didn't do it in front of 1,000 other people. In a case where it is one person's word against another the woman always loses.

Dr. Cuomo is right. Having Clarence Thomas speak at graduation is the final straw for this year full of sexual harrasment cases. To say that this fixes all the "liberals" that our "Liberal University" has brought recently just doesn't compute. We go to the University of Georgia. It's not like we're at Cornell or UC Davis.
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Thorsen

posted 4/22/08 @ 8:57 PM EST

Originally posted by

Natalie B.

 The idea that our justice system is perfect and that someone is innocent unless they get convicted is outlandish. Just because the Senate didn't take Anita Hill's testamony seriously enough in 1991 to keep Thomas out of the Supreme Court doesn't mean the University should follow their lead. This is just another wonderful example of victim blaming where Thomas gets off because he didn't do it in front of 1,000 other people. In a case where it is one person's word against another the woman always loses.

Dr. Cuomo is right. Having Clarence Thomas speak at graduation is the final straw for this year full of sexual harrasment cases. To say that this fixes all the "liberals" that our "Liberal University" has brought recently just doesn't compute. We go to the University of Georgia. It's not like we're at Cornell or UC Davis.



Lol. So, you are saying that BECAUSE there was no evidence that he committed sexual harrassment against Anita Hill that the university should rescind Justice Thomas' invitation. What would you think should be done if it were proven that he committed sexual harrassment?

I guess, the way your logic works, if a woman claims it happened, then that makes it true. Right?

Do you really go to school at UGA? If so, please take a logic course before graduating. Or at least tell everyone that you went to Tech instead.
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Interested staff

posted 4/22/08 @ 12:46 PM EST

In any case, any student wishing to protest Justice Thomas' appearance might want to consider: In Morse v. Frederick (US SupCt, 2007), Thomas wrote, "In my view, the history of public education suggests that the First Amendment, as originally understood, does not protect student speech in public schools." According to Thomas, because originally public schools were intended to substitute for private tutors, public schools could discipline students as they liked and had a far stronger hand in what happened in the classroom. "In short," he continued, " in the earliest public schools, teachers taught, and students listened. Teachers commanded, and students obeyed."
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