Haverford College 's library has a cat that it really, sorta, kinda doesn't want.

Valentino is his real name, and he has real owners. But the cat named Valentino tends to go by Havercat these days, named after the Haverford College campus he has wandered for nearly a year, and the library he has chosen as home.

According to Philly.com, the college claimed the cat wandered into the library last December, yet despite every attempt to shoo him out, Havercat found a way back in.

Havercat's original owners apparently didn't want him back. As a result, eventually a litter pan was brought into the library. Then food. Then bedding. Valentino became Havercat, and Havercat became a college prowler. So much so, he was caught on video killing a wild baby bunny.




Oh...oh, dear lord, this turned dark quickly. I thought this was about a cute cat living in a college library?

The library's Facebook page even posted casual follow-up videos to the baby bunny murder with a non-action packed eight second video labeled "Looking for more."





The joys of casual murder! It's adorable when so much fur is involved!

Except all of that prowling of the campus led to Havercat recently becoming injured somehow. Maybe it was a car that hit him, maybe a posse of ticked-off rabbits had a go--no one knows--but Havercat was found hurt. Veterinarians claim it was only bruising, but that he'd need weeks of indoor seclusion to rehabilitate, which the library cannot provide.

In the meantime, he'll be fostered in various homes until a forever home is available--preferably far, far away from Peter Rabbit's home.

Graduating college students are complaining about commencement speakers, so commencement speakers are cancelling.

Former University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was scheduled to deliver a commencement address to Haverford College--in what can only be described as one of the more disappointing headlining commencement speakers in 2014. ("Hey, kids! We booked an official from another university to speak to you! And, to up the sexy, they're now unemployed!")

Some students at Haverford weren't too thrilled with the selection of Birgeneau, and not because they were hoping for A-list talent. A small group of Haverford students wrote Birgeneau to complain about his oversight of UC Berkeley during the Occupy Movement, when Birgeneau eventually demanded arrests be made after protesters ignored the co-camping rules of occupying Berkeley campus space. Regardless, some Haverford students found Birgeneau's response to be reprehensible, and demanded he step down as a commencement speaker.

He did.

Birgeneau isn't alone. In 2014, notable commencement speakers like former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, among others, have withdrawn as speakers at graduating ceremonies this year after students at respective colleges protested their involvement.

In case you think this is a matter of politics, of liberal versus conservative beliefs, think again. The Los Angeles Times (of a liberal bent) derided the students who demanded such commencement speakers step down, writing in an editorial:


"Still, the cascade of canceled speeches is worrying for several reasons. First, there is the uncompromising nature of the opposition: the demand that a speaker agree 100% with the protesters. This insistence on doctrinal purity is antithetical to the notion that a university ought to be an environment in which students, far from being protected from opposing views, are challenged to engage with them."


Let's face facts. The real challenge here for students was having to listen to Robert Birgeneau for twenty minutes.