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(KAIR) -- A record number of students received their diplomas Saturday as part of Benedictine College’s Commencement ceremony.
Four-hundred-five students graduated, and roughly 360 walked the aisle to get their diplomas.
Commencement speaker, Wisconsin Congressman and former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan, in his nearly 22 minute address to graduates at Ralph Nolan Gymnasium in Atchison stressed faith, as well as personal freedom.
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Prior to the commencement and Ryan’s speech, around 30 protestors gathered outside.
The group, in large part representing the non-profit federal committee moveon.org, believed Ryan’s politics didn’t match the Benedictine’s traditional values.
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