Conflict on Campus in Colorado

Boulder mountains
photo: Michael Buck

The sole finalist for the new president of the University of Colorado system, is a Republican oil executive with only a bachelor’s degree. You can imagine where this is going:

Campus observers have fiercely protested the selection, which has yet to be approved by regents. A “Boycott Benson” Web site questions the selection process and criticizes his background as a conservative Republican activist. The student government has voiced complaints, and a campus portrait of Benson was defaced with graffiti that said, “I’ve given CU enough $ for an individual right-wing nut like me to be CU’s president.”
(Newsday)

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One Response to “Conflict on Campus in Colorado”

  1. on 14 Feb 2008 at 9:42 am Hazel Stone

    Ah the great American liberal university system. I wonder how many degrees I need to get in order to homeschool my kids through college…

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