"Higher ed just ain't what it used to be:

News Item: Phil Donahue is booed and jeered while trying to list "what liberals believe" during commencement speech at North Carolina State University.

News Item: Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is met with boos and walkouts over previous anti-gay remarks during commencement speech at St. Joseph's University.

News Item: New York Times reporter Chris Hedges is booed off the stage because of anti-war statements during Rockford College commencement speech.

That'll teach 'em for attempting free speech on a college campus."
Zay Smith

UPDATE: Yet another commencement controversy... with somewhat different issues from today's secular religious wars.

"Rector Timothy Cutler was peremptorily dismissed in 1722 when he concluded the (Yale) September commencement exercises with a prayer to which he added the Anglican form of an ending, "And let all the people say, Amen." The words signified the Rector's too close acquaintance with Arminianism, which embraced the heretical notion that a human soul could bring about its own salvation. Puritan dogma held that only God's predestined decree had any say in the matter of amens, and Rector Cutler was gone before the first leaves fell from the elm trees".