NEW YORK
The College Fix
by NATHAN RUBBELKE – SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY on MAY 11, 2015
Le Moyne College president calls the student activism a ‘great call for celebration’
It seemed a perfect choice: A Catholic university inviting one of the church’s top leaders – the archbishop of New York – someone who even voted in the last papal conclave, as its commencement speaker.
But some at Le Moyne College see it differently.
Students at the Jesuit college, located in Syracuse, N.Y., are calling for Cardinal Timothy Dolan – leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York – to be disinvited as the college’s commencement speaker.
A petition posted two weeks ago on Change.org titled “Change Le Moyne’s Commencement speaker 2015” implored the college’s administration to disinvite Dolan, stating “the graduating class of 2015 and the graduates, along with staff and other students, do not approve” of Dolan.
As of Sunday night, the petition had 613 signatures. That’s at a college with only 2,800 undergrads and 800 grad students.
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