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...recent petition by students at the Kennedy School for Government (KSG) against the selection of Mass. Gov. W. Mitt Romney as commencement speaker raises valid issues of student involvement in commencement day activities. But the petition’s demand—that Romney should not speak—is simply a partisan effort against a conservative leader that should not influence the administration to change this year’s speaker...
...petition also claims that Romney does not have the necessary international stature to speak at a KSG commencement...
...Romney has already demonstrated a profound lack of courage in the choices he has made in his brief tenure in the public arena by not truthfully or forthrightly addressing the budget crisis,” they wrote. “Rather than being straight with the public he has backhandedly raised fees, forcing localities to raise taxes, and cut the essential services he pledged to protect, while publicly stating he will not be cutting services or raising taxes...
Rabin said that although he disapproved of the Romney choice, he would be content with a commitment from the administration to solicit student input next year...
...first, Rabin said, he and several other students wrote Nye independently to express their opposition to Romney, and their independent efforts later coalesced into the larger petition...