Word: speaker
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Some 150 students at Wellesley signed a petition last month questioning the choice of Mrs. Bush as a commencement speaker, saying her prominence was based solely on her marriage. Mrs. Bush dropped out of Smith College after her first year to marry Bush, then a Navy pilot...
WELLESLEY College's choice of Barbara Bush as its commencement speaker has sparked a controversy about feminism and the role of women in the 1990's. The invitation sends a contradictory message to students at the women's college, who have been educated to believe that a woman's merit derives from her own talents, not the ring around her finger...
...role, however, of a generation of women struggling to define feminism in a society with many options available to them. No wonder Wellesley students only narrowly chose the novelist Alice Walker (who declined the invitation) over Barbara Bush when electing a graduation speaker. Alice Walker represents the intellect who is recognized for her products on the written page; Barbara Bush is the matriarch who is recognized by her volunteerism and commitment to family. Something in both Walker and Bush appeals to young women...
...think that, more than anyone in this country, it is I who have brought matters to where they are today." The words of President F.W. de Klerk? Or black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela? No, the speaker at last week's press conference was Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 61, the self-confident president of Inkatha, chief minister of KwaZulu and prince of the Zulus...
...First Lady must be feeling a little like Henry Kissinger, who attracted protests nearly every time he was invited to a college campus. But it's not the secret bombing of Cambodia that has a quarter of the senior class at Wellesley College objecting to the First Lady as speaker at this year's graduation. It is simply that she is married to George Bush and has no career of her own. "To honor Barbara Bush as a commencement speaker is to honor a woman who has gained recognition through the achievements of her husband, which contradicts what we have...