Many students ‘narrow-minded and partisan’

I believe a university should be a place of higher learning where students are free to make their own decisions regarding political ideologies. But, I also believe that honorary degrees should not be given to divisive and controversial figures.
However, the protest outside the Duckworth Centre only shows how many of our students are narrow-minded and partisan.
Even though I am not affiliated with, nor do I support the Conservative Party of Canada, this protest is a slap to the faces of those who graduated that day, their families, and to Toews, who wasn’t given a degree based on his political beliefs, but for his success in federal politics.
Erin Larson should learn that a podium should only be a soapbox when it is the right time and place. Her speech did not represent the graduates and it did not represent the entire student body.
We, as students at the University of Winnipeg, must be inclusive to all political opinions.
This is how we maintain our integrity.

Adam Peleshaty

– Adam Peleshaty