I knew that name was familiar.
Mari Oye, recently graduated from Wellesley High School, was the subject of a story in today's Boston Globe entitled "Presidential Scholar Confronts the President." The article describes how Oye, a Presidential Scholar bound for Yale in the fall, presented President George Bush with a letter signed by her and by 49 of her fellow scholars during a ceremony at the White House. According to the Globe story, the letter urged the President to reject the use of torture in treating detainees at Guantanimo Bay and other facilities, and urged the humane treatment of terrorism suspects.
About halfway through the article, I recognized the name and realized that Oye had been a member of Wellesley's fine cross-country team, and had finished fifth for Wellesley at the league meet last October.
Some might cheer her on, others might see her actions as a stunt. I'm inclined to give her credit for at least trying to find a meaningful way to express her feelings in what seems to me to have been a fairly respectful way.
We will have to ask David Smith (also headed for Yale) to interview Oye and find out whether she expected the publicity.
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She's a nice girl, I had dinner with her and some other Yale people back in February.
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