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How embarrassing for Ithaca College. For a newly graduated person to shame her 4 years of education and her school in front of the whole world by saying something so ignorant about the U.S. economy is tragic.

Trust me. Ithaca College wears this comment like a badge of honor.

Their faculty is overwhelmingly liberal. In fact, the chair of their politics department basically said we "deserved" September 11 and they proudly published her essay about in the alumni magazine.

Members of the administration were also involved in funding an illegal trip by a faculty member to Iraq.

Not only won't they be embarrased, they'll probably name her a "distinguished alumni" someday.

PHOOEY ON THEM ALL. Daughter #1 just received her master's degree in Urban Planning and Historic Preservation at UVA yesterday. A good conservative she has a job in the DC area next year, making a good salary and we are proud as punch with her. Let all these whiners and clymers go p*ss up a rope,

I feel the need to chime in here as an Ithaca student that attended graduation.... The picture painted by the Ithaca Journal is just plain incorrect. The notion that all the graduates stood in applause except for the two that walked out is false. The music school, along with humanitites and sciences (politics, sociology, etc...) was quite supportive. Reaction was mixed elsewhere,especially in the business school where the speech was almost entirely condemned. The more interesting story was in the stands where many family members walked out. The students see this garbage everyday, but this was new to parents. The administration was visibly unhappy during the speech. The President pulled references to the Ice Cream duo in her speech,after Ben's tirade. The Senior Class President (a republican), began her speech by stating, "Now it's time for a real speech, on what this ceremony is supposed to be about." Though Ben's words were disgraceful, it only assisted the backlash that is started to from.