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Although much has already been written here about Attorney General Mukasey’s upcoming commencement address, we wish to add our voices and viewpoints to the discourse.
One of the predictable aspects of academic life is the recurring debate about who should be entitled to speak in the university marketplace. That marketplace is correctly perceived by students, faculty and alumni to be a place where ideas can be freely exchanged and values of intellectual honesty and freedom cherished. Because the university is such a unique marketplace, its constituencies may from time to time jealously guard entry.