The administration and the student government of St. Vincent College held a town hall-style meeting to debate the invitation to President George W. Bush to be the commencement speaker on May 11. Two students spoke in favor of the invitation and two students spoke in opposition to it. Then the microphones were opened for supporting and opposing comments from students in the audience. 

Other students who spoke included Christopher Reed, Katie Marie Campbell, Sean Thornton, Joshua Meny, Melissa Altman, Jason Taft, Nathan Sylvester, Joseph Astorino, Jennifer Takacs, Shane Seremet, Thaddeus Pajak, Alexander Krupey, Doug Braem, Jordan Conklin, Megan Havern, Maxwell Posival, Zachary Clark, Kelley Stahl, David Dickerson, George Miller, Gabrielle Nelson, John Matta, and Stephen Dragan.