By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--April 4, 2014
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News that Matthews will speak hasn’t been well-received among students, said Taylor Stepp, president of the undergraduate student government. Complaints about Matthews’s liberal views are common, Stepp said, but students are equally upset that the university didn’t draw a bigger name. “The response from students is simply that we don’t know who this guy is, we don’t care about this guy,” Stepp said. “And the fact that Mr. Matthews obviously has a very liberal leaning and he’s not even a public official was irksome to me.” An appointment to the speaker-selection committee has traditionally been seen as prestigious, Stepp said.Uh-oh. So much for the whole "prestige" thing.... Surely, anyone who's ever tried to suffer through an installment of Hardball can understand their frustration. After working your butt of for four years in the hallowed halls of academia, the last thing you want to endure is another screaming leftist crackpot. That's especially true when the person in question is the most despised TV anchor in America today. So, how did an obscure nobody like Matthews get invited in the first place?
Provost Joseph Steinmetz and his Office of Academic Affairs alone decided to invite MSNBC talk-show host Chris Matthews to speak at the May 4 ceremony at Ohio Stadium. In the past, the university asked a committee of students and staff for a recommendation. This year, there wasn’t time, OSU officials said. “Because of time constraints and leadership changes during the past year, the decision was made to use a more streamlined approach to speaker selection for spring 2014 commencement,” OSU spokesman Gary Lewis said in an email.Ah there it is. The guy in charge thought it would be a great idea to expose the students to one last fiery-hot blast of statism before they left college. Maybe they figured they could indoctrinate a holdout or two before they escaped the collegiate grip forever. ABC: Always. Be. Closing. Just for fun, here's Matthews telling Al Sharpton how Thoimas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in the 20th century!
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