It seems that students at Washington University were none too happy to have Bristol Palin talk about Abstinence. The speach would have been part of the University’s Student Sexual Responsibility Week. Bristol would have been paid several thousand dollars to speak and the student were not having that. So Students held a protest to stop use of student-generated funds to pay her.
According to a University statement: “The message that they intended on sharing would be overshadowed by controversy.” But, the student advisory’s president, Scott Elman was quick to stress that the decision was “100 percent mutual” between Palin and the committee. Going on to say that he was disappointed that students weren’t more open to the idea of Palin talking.
I have to agree with the students on this Bristol’s fee for talking is between $15,000 and $30,000. She is going to talk about abstinence when she clearly did not practice it. Seems a bit hyprocritical to me. Anyway she only became a hmmm teen advocate and so famous because of her mother certainly not on her own merit! I am sure the money could go to a lot better uses. What do you think? Do you think the students were wrong?
Below are some of the comments from students:
“It’s not about conservative or liberal, it’s about not wasting our money on people who don’t matter… especially people who are only famous for being the teenage pregnant daughter of a politician,” one post reads. “That is not a credential – it’s a gimmick. So reach across the aisle – and stand up
and say something.”
“Bristol Palin got pregnant at 17, and rose to fame on none of her own merits, only the fact that her mother ran for Vice President, she has zero credentials in this area, and costs a ton of money,” writes another student. “Also – we’re kind of a laughing stock now at other Universities as people become aware that this is what our University has chosen to do… let’s get a group started and cut the BS
And another: “I am against Bristol Palin coming to WashU for a number of reasons, not first of which is that it could be paying for some genuine education. Also, this is a place of learning and Abstinence programs were created in reaction and as a replacement for sex-education.
“I mean, is Bristol honestly going to say that she was trying to make a baby and lay back and thought of england? Or that that she had sex, without understanding the steps to be taken in order not to become pregnant?”
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