Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Obama's Speech Left Them feeling "stereotyped, simplified, and used"

A student at Barnard College, Ayelet Pearl, has written a stirring protest to President Barack Obama's commencement speech yesterday. Noting that the president's words were "beautiful," Pearl nonetheless objected to the use of the historic women's college as a political prop, and said that the event left her feeling "stereotyped, simplified, and used."

Pearl, a junior, pointed out in her article in theColumbia Political Review that while many Barnard students shared President Obama's enthusiasm for "change," they did not necessarily agree with his policies:

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