Students Protest During Baccalaureate Address

During the Baccalaureate address June 2, some students were listening in rapt attention. Others had turned their backs. The Baccalaureate speaker, George Will *68, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who’s written a syndicated column for The Washington Post for more than 40 years. But some students took issue with his views on sexual misconduct on university campuses, pointing to a 2014 Post column in which he criticized an Obama-era policy that addressed what Will called “the supposed campus epidemic of rape.” Will faced student protests at Miami University and Michigan State University over the column later that year. The Baccalaureate…