The Chronicle of Higher Education

Cheney Lecture Raises Hackles at a Missouri College Known for Lofty Speeches

By MICHAEL ARNONE

When Vice President Dick Cheney attacked Sen. John F. Kerry in a foreign-policy speech at Westminster College last month, many people at the Missouri college felt that he impugned not only the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, but also the college itself.

Foreign-policy speeches are revered at Westminster....

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