Constitution Day

I attended the keynote address for the Constitution Day activities. I really don't know what I think of it. There were some things that the speaker really did well, but there were several times that I almost felt like laughing. See, she was speaking about secret prisons in the War on Terror, and the torture and such that goes on in places like that. And, obviously, I think torture is bad. Like, really bad. It shouldn't be done, if for no other reason than it makes us no better than the people we are supposedly fighting. Its just that parts of her presentation seemed somewhat thrown together, especially the parts where she used her student's work. Now the students were veterans, and veterans would of course have a unique perspective, and using their work was not the problem. It was the way she did it. There was a point where she was clicking through slides, saying. " Here's a slide my student did. Here's another." and so on. Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but, that's not informative. I wanted to hear something she had found through research, and that wasn't. It felt more like she was using it for filler. Also, at the end, during the question period, when she said that she had talked enough, and wanted to hear what we think. I understand the sentiment, but we're uninformed college students. She's the expert. We're there to learn what she thinks. That's the whole idea.