This past Saturday, I graduated from Penn State University. The ceremony was tremendous fun, with my whole family and several friends there. But, as usual, university administrators forgot to completely cover their tail, and parents got a glimpse of what university life is like.

First, since I graduated in summer session, I did not have to sit through a particularly forceful anti-American commencement speaker, which have made news in several graduations in recent years. However, the commencement speaker, Bernard Bailyn, did reveal something about professors new attitude about commencement speeches.

He said he knew commencement speeches were supposed to provide a "charge," i.e. a motivational farewell to students. But he mocked the idea, saying charging is what credit cards and car batteries are for.

In other words, he openly admitted that he did not care that commencement speeches should be for the students, meant to give them inspirational words. Instead, he arrogantly decided, like many others, especially leftists, that commencement speeches can be used by them to advance their political agendas. Indeed, his whole speech revolved around advocating "personal liberty" and he snuck in a few shots at George Bush and John Ashcroft. Whether one disagrees or not, commencement is not the place to be getting lectured on politics.

What was very interesting though, was something my father picked up on at the commencement. My father noticed that when our President of Penn State, Graham Spanier, acknowledged military students graduating out of ROTC, he used the word "obligated" to acknowledge them, instead of "honored." My father referred to it as a "negative attitude."

I did not notice Spanier's attitude about it, likely because I am used to it. The fact that my father, a completely apolitical guy only attending his daughter's college graduation, noticed it, is telling. Actually, it is likely many other people in the audience noticed it too, because the audience uproared into the loudest clapping and cheering of the whole ceremony when the military members were introduced, as if to make up for Dr. Spanier's insult. And, I did notice that the soldiers stood particularly proud and defiant, at attention, when honored on Saturday. The only ones who didn't notice Dr. Spanier's slip were likely us programmed college students, who are mostly conditioned and immune to such rhetoric.

After I told my father about Dr. Spanier's hatred of the military, he wanted to know why. It is one thing to not support the war, but why the disdain for the troops? It's not easy to explain to outsiders about the university. How exactly does one say "Because they hate America and capitalism and want to start a new socialist world order?" Americans are simply too benevolant to believe something like that.

So I told him about what Dr. Spanier did after September 11, 2001. The patriotic thing to do would have been to give students the day off on September 12, 2001. But Dr. Spanier ordered us to go to class and told professors to "talk to students about the event." Sounds good from the outside, until you realize how anti-Ameircan professors are. On September 12, 2001, all of us went to class and got asked, "What did America do to deserve that?"

Americans are very naive to what goes on at the university. Every time graduation comes around, parents get a glimpse to what goes on at the university. Parents have done everything from erupting in boos to speakers to just plain being shocked, like my parents were. If administrators can be that bad, when parents and alumni are sitting in the audience, imagine what they do behind closed doors.

Well, let me tell you, parents and espeically alumni, what goes on at the university. They are hellbent on destroying America. They hate capitalism; they hate our progress; they hate that we want to maintain our sovereignty. They want to demoralize students, and to dismantle the very institution which protects America. They poison students, year after year, sending thousands upon thousands of them off into the world, to be the next leaders of America.

And unless you start paying attention and holding the university's feet to the fire before sending your children and money there, this will continue.