Barnard College has ditched its previously scheduled commencement speaker, Jill Abramson, the first woman to be Executive Editor of the New York Times, in favor of President Obama. Apparently, not everyone at the women’s college is happy about replacing an accomplished woman like Abramson with a man.
As always, there’s plenty of indignation to go around: Columbia students miffed that Obama is speaking at Barnard and not Columbia, Barnard students asking why a male Columbia graduate was preferred to such a trailblazing woman as Jill Abramson, Barnard students who would have preferred Michelle Obama.
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