"A plaque would probably do it. ... if we spent money on every person who spoke here, then we're just going to end up spending money for little image things, things to make us look good."

Firas Amach
senior-electrical engineering

"I don't really think they should, actually. If they're going to commemorate something, they should commemorate someone more updated than Martin Luther King Jr. There have been other great speakers who have come here."

Shana Tontino
senior-environmental resource managment

"Yeah, I think there should be. He's an important figure in history. And there are lots of minorities at Penn State, and it would help represent us."

Shaquonda Dyer
freshman-division of undergraduate studies

-- Compiled by Ann Nallo