Schwarzenegger planned speech causing friction at alma mater

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MICHAEL R. BLOOD

Associated Press


LOS ANGELES - Years before making "The Terminator," Arnold Schwarzenegger was a young Austrian bodybuilder hitting the books at Santa Monica College, hungry to become a success.

But the celebrity governor's plan to return to his alma mater next week to deliver a commencement address is turning into something less than a homecoming celebration.

A faculty group declared that Schwarzenegger "threatened academic freedom." The Board of Trustees was asked to rescind the invitation. And protests that could attract hundreds of people from on and off campus are being organized around the governor's scheduled appearance on June 14.

The school took the awkward step Monday of issuing a statement defending the choice of the Republican governor to address the 600 graduates. <snip>

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/11837709.htm

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1. Don't Gropernator need to learn English first?

Maria will come to his rescue.

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2. That's my Alma Mater!!!

Way to go SMC!!! Don't give that Dick an inch!