Unwelcome Mat

(Fox News) - More than 200 students and faculty at Furman University are protesting President Bush's planned commencement address next week. The co-signers have put an explanation on the school's Web site.

They say they are ashamed of the actions of the Bush administration and specifically cite the linkage between Iraq and 9/11 – “Sowing fear and using threat levels to sidestop the constitution... suppressing or ignoring evidence that contradicts administration ideology... and encouraging reckless overspending.”

Carmela Epright, a bioethics professor at the university said, "For me, I'm an ethicist. How could I not be upset about Bush's torture policy?"

But many students are upset with the protesters. The senior class voted unanimously in favor of the president's address. One student tells the Greenville News that it is the faculty response that has taken away from the honor.