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From Newsday.com: E.L. Doctorow nearly booed off commencement stage at Hofstra.

This was a commencement speech which had almost nothing to do with graduating college, and was wholly inappropriate for the event. Don’t get me wrong - politics in general is not an inappropriate subject; a political hate-fest is.

Most of the parents and many of the students booed so loudly that Doctorow had to stop mid-speech and wait.

Guess how the faculty reacted.

[University president Stuart] Rabinowitz approached the podium and called for calm. “We value open discussion and debate,” he said. “For the sake of your graduates, please let him finish.”

Uh-huh. “For the sake of your graduates”, just do what we say. Some more:

Some Hofstra professors said Doctorow was on target in discussing the war. “I thought this was a totally appropriate place to talk about politics because that’s the world our students are entering,” said sociology professor Cynthia Bogard.“I only wish their parents had provided them a better role model.”

Got it kids? You believe what you believe in because your parents are stupid. Just do what we say and don’t argue.

Professors should remember that the parents aren’t so stupid that they can’t make enough money to pay faculty salaries. Parents, your (hundreds of) thousands of dollars buys your kids a good education, to be sure, but it also pays for a good portion of leftist indoctrination.