Notre Dame: Students May Boycott Their Own Commencement Over Obama Invite

posted March 22, 2009

In an exclusive interview with CMR, Mary K. Daly, the President of Notre Dame's Right to Life group, said that the school administration's decision to invite President Barack Obama to deliver the Commencement Address is a "slap in the face" to many Catholics and has many students questioning whether they can "in good conscience" attend their own college graduation."

"I think that this is a travesty that students should have to wrestle with whether or not to go to their own college graduation, after working very hard to gain admittance to this university and then working very hard to earn a diploma from this university," Daly said.

Daly expressed her "acute disappointment" with the administration's decision, adding that the invitation "undercuts the University's Catholic character." Daly said she believed the school should hold its Catholic Identity above that of secular prestige. the rest