USC should reconsider honoring Rev. Wright
By Hakeem Jefferson and Taylor Cain | April 18, 2011To President Pastides and the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees, The University of South Carolina will confer upon Rev. G. Bryant Wright the honorary degree of humane letters at this year’s commencement exercises. As seniors preparing to graduate in just a couple weeks, we vehemently oppose this conferral and call on university officials to reconsider bestowing upon Rev. Wright the highest honor given any by our university, whose Latin motto, Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros, aptly sums up our belief that “learning humanizes character and does not permit it to be cruel.”