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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Human Events <HumanEvents@HumanEventsOnline.com><BR>Subject: "This College is Gutsy!" --Robert Novak<BR>To: arthurkelly@yahoo.com<BR>Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 11:50 AM<BR><BR>
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<P align=center><FONT color=#ff0033><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=4>"Most colleges shy away from having me give commencement addresses. They're afraid my outspoken conservatism might offend somebody. </FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=4><STRONG><EM>No guts! </EM></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=4><STRONG>Not Thomas More College. </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=4><STRONG>They invited me to speak with no worry <BR>about what I might say. </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=4><STRONG><EM>Guts!"</EM></STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990033 size=4><STRONG><BR><BR></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3><STRONG><FONT size=4>Robert Novak</FONT><BR></STRONG><FONT size=2>Conservative columnist<BR>and our 2006 commencement speaker</FONT></FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4><STRONG>*</STRONG><BR>That was three years ago. </FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>This year our gutsy commencement speaker,<BR>Francis Cardinal Arinze, went toe-to-toe<BR>with the President of the United States!<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Why? </FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Because in his commencement speech at Notre Dame University,<BR>Barack Obama urged graduates to walk the safe<BR>and easy path of "thoughtful dialogue." </FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3><EM>(No guts there!)</EM></FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=3>At Thomas More, Cardinal Arinze<BR>instead urged our graduates to move<BR><EM>through dialogue</EM> and <EM>past it</EM> to an<BR>"unapologetic fidelity to truth."</FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3><EM>(Which, these days, takes guts.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4><STRONG>*</STRONG></FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>At Notre Dame, Obama said<BR>"Faith necessarily admits doubt." </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Forgetting Stephen Vincent Benet's comment that "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom," Obama then declared to that vast audience of Catholic priests, professors, parents, and grads, "It's beyond our capacity to know what God asks of us."</FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=3>To which Cardinal Arinze gave the obvious response: <BR>"People of all religions and cultures recognize<BR>most of the dictates of the Ten Commandments." </FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>*<BR><FONT size=4>Did any of the adoring crowds at Notre Dame challenge Obama's rejection of their Faith? Did any take issue with his cavalier repudiation of the Natural Law that undergirds Western Civilization itself? </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Not that day.</FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3><EM>No guts there.</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>*</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3><BR>Which is why, when he funded a scholarship for college students, Robert Novak turned away from universities like Notre Dame and chose our tiny college here in New Hampshire, the school about which conservative columnist Patrick J. Buchanan recently remarked:</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<TD width=303><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=3><EM>"Excellence in every respect is what Thomas More College offers young people. I do not exaggerate when I say that Thomas More College is exactly the kind of college you want your children and your children's children to attend."</EM></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Yes, our school has guts (as did our patron, Thomas More), but we never forget that it takes more than guts to sustain a civilization. So on our modest campus of less than ten acres, we've created a gracious community of faculty and students rooted in the civility that alone forms virtue in souls. </FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>And for four years, we require each of our students to dwell at length in the Great Books that built Western Civilization in the first place, the books whose study will make it once again a shining city on a hill, books by </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Plutarch, Augustine, Dante, Aquinas, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Jefferson, Madison, de Tocqueville, Hawthorne, Melville, T.S. Eliot, and the other great men and women whose wisdom gives courage its meaning.</FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>*<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=5>Dialogue? </FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=4>Sure, President Obama! We're for it!</FONT><FONT color=#990000><BR></FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3><EM>But not dialogue as an end in itself. </EM></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>*</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>At Thomas More our students engage in four years of genuine, hearty dialogue with the greatest thinkers the human race has produced, joining with those thinkers in the ongoing search for truth . . . <EM>and in gutsy, unapologetic fidelity to it.</EM></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3><BR>*</FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>That's the education the young people of our country need, the education that countless respected conservative journals (and even many liberal ones!) have recognized as top-flight.</FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=3><STRONG><FONT size=5>Recent accolades</FONT><BR>for Thomas More College</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>* Ranked as one of the top 50 schools in the country by <EM>All-American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith. </EM></FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>* Ranked as one of the nation's top 100 schools in the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's best-selling college guide, <EM>Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth About America's Top Schools. </EM></FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>* Featured by <EM>Time Magazine</EM> in a cover story titled "Who Needs Harvard?" as a unique alternative to large, ivy-league schools for those seeking a rigorous education in the Western tradition.</FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>* Included in <EM>The National Review College Guide: America's Top Liberal Arts Schools and Cool Colleges, </EM>and recommended by the <EM>Young America's Foundation.</EM></FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>* Recognized by <EM>Crisis Magazine</EM> as one of the top-ten Catholic colleges in the country. </FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>A great and gutsy education we give, no doubt,<BR>but in today's world, Great Books don't win big grants<BR>. . . and money flows to schools that<BR>court presidents, not cardinals.</FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Like most of the other small schools,<BR>we've been slammed by the market's collapse,<BR>and our students are hurting, too.</FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center><STRONG><FONT size=5>*</FONT></STRONG><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=5><STRONG>We're hurting so much that<BR>I'm going to be completely frank:</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=4><FONT color=#000000>Things were so bad last Fall that <BR>many of our professors went without pay</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000 size=4><EM><FONT size=3>. . . so we could keep our doors open</FONT></EM></FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT size=3><EM><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000>. . . so our students could continue their life-giving dialogue with Plato and Aristotle and Aquinas and Shakespeare</FONT></EM></FONT></DIV>
<P align=left><FONT size=3><EM><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000>. . . so the voices of wise and gutsy men like Robert Novak, Patrick Buchanan, and Cardinal Arinze would continue to be heard regularly on at least one college campus in America.</FONT></EM></FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<P align=center>*<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000 size=4>It takes guts for young professors with large families<BR>to persis</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>t this way when hope seems lost. </FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Yet persist we will.</FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>We don't take federal handouts, and we never will;<BR>we won't become politically-correct in order to survive. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=4><STRONG>In fact, until the man comes to shut off the lights, turn off the water, and lock the doors, our gutsy faculty will continue to provide our eager students the best conservative education available in America today.</STRONG></FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>Robert Novak knows this, <BR>which is why he contributed<BR>his own money to help us. </FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=4>Now you know it.</FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=5>Will you help us before<BR>it's too late for our students?</FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Will you help us continue to provide a gutsy education<BR>that develops in them an unapologetic fidelity to truth?</FONT></DIV>
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<P align=center>You know, this past year we severely reduced our expenditures,<BR>and we have more sharp cuts planned. But to survive until September<BR>when our students return to campus bringing what tuition<BR>they can afford to pay, we simply need to raise $100,000. </DIV>
<P align=center>That's not much for Notre Dame,<BR>but for us it's the difference between life and death. </DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Will you help?<BR></FONT></DIV>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=3>Before you decide, recall Pat Buchanan's words:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#990000 size=3><EM>"Excellence in every respect is what Thomas More College offers young people. I do not exaggerate when I say that Thomas More College is exactly the kind of college you want your children and your children's children to attend. Please join me in supporting this marvelously authentic college!"</EM></FONT></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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