Jesuit College Pro-Lifers

ASSOCIATION OF JESUIT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, Jan. 29 — Nearly 400 students from 13 Jesuit colleges and universities participated in this year’s March for Life in Washington. The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities highlighted the students’ participation in a press release. Said Georgetown senior Bridget Bowes: “The student participation is representative of the future of the pro-life movement.”

Duquesne Nixes Pols

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, Jan. 26 — Duquesne University President Charles Dougherty has told the university’s law school it can’t invite three prominent politicians to its commencement in June. The law school had planned to invite Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. But Dougherty ruled all three men unsuitable because their appearance would imply “a political statement” — and also because of “the likelihood that some or all of these politicians have taken public positions on issues in opposition to Catholic Church teachings.”

Benedictine’s Nobel Winner

THE KANSAS CITY STAR, Jan. 29 — Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., has honored an illustrious alumnus: 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Muta Maathai. The Kenyan environmentalist and women’s advocate earned a degree in biological sciences in 1964. On Jan. 28, she visited her alma mater to receive the Cross of the Order of St. Benedict. “But on this campus, there was peace,” Maathai said about her student days. “There was love and there was tranquility. And I have no doubt that created who I am.”