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...award ceremony took place last weekend at the 25th Annual College Media Convention in New York City...
Several weeks ago, Tufts University senior Elizabeth E. Monnin was privately notified that she was to be awarded one of 12 annual Senior Awards for leadership and academic achievement from the Tufts Alumni Association. But on Friday, the Tufts Daily revealed that the award had been rescinded—the first such revocation in the Senior Awards’ 46-year history. What horrific secret came to light in the time between the two events...
...making lewd gestures—was deemed “not consistent with the traditional Tufts courtesy” by Alumni Association officials. On the basis of the protest and the accusation that she made a rude gesture towards former President Bush, Monnin’s not-yet-awarded award was pre-emptively revoked...
...withdrawal of the award is highly questionable. Monnin denies that she made any obscene motion, and the Tufts’ Alumni Association should have not acted decisively on the word of one or more informants whose identities are still unclear. At the very least, one would expect the Alumni Association to conduct some sort of investigation before taking away this honor, but none was reported by the Tufts Daily. Instead, a student being recognized for skills as a leader has been summarily taken for a bald-faced liar...
...even if she did make the lewd gesture, Tufts’ Alumni Association is still not off the hook for withdrawing the award. Its rather difficult to take seriously the claim of the Alumni Association that they were unaware of Monnin’s history of transgressive and brash methods of making her voice heard given the prominence of that history. Three years ago, Monnin was involved in the controversial student takeover of a University building; “I don’t try to hide my actions,” she told the Tufts Daily when asked about...