AUC graduates try to ban graduating in the hijab

Published June 16th, 2011 - 20:37 GMT

As AUC students turn their nose down at veiled or hijaabi fellow graduates, we wonder why a headdress should get in the way of a day that celebrates the cap and gown. Since when has religion impeded Muslim female graduands?

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