Beckwith: Don't Replace Glendon
Francis Beckwith thinks Notre Dame president Father John Jenkins should abandon his search for a replacement for Mary Ann Glendon as recipient of this year’s Laetare Medal.
Beckwith, who is currently serving as Remick Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture, said this about the idea in a post at the Southern Appeal blog:
“I am no expert in public relations, but regifting a prestigious medal should not even have been on the table. It runs the risk of adding injury to insult. For whoever is the runner-up recipient of the 2009 Laetare Medal will now undergo a level of scrutiny that would have not occurred if he or she were the first choice under different circumstances. Very, very strange.”
