CLAREMONT, Calif. – Students at the all-girls Scripps College are livid that former secretary of state Madeleine Albright will deliver this year’s commencement address.

“Keeping true to Scripps College tradition, it was announced recently that the 2016 commencement speaker will be none other than former Secretary of State, white feminist and repeated genocide enabler Madeleine Albright,” student Kinzie Mabon wrote for The Student Life, Scripps’ student newspaper.

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“If you hadn’t already guessed it, I’m deeply disgusted that on the happiest day of my life (up to this point) I have to sit quietly and smile at the cameras of my parents and grandparents while this woman tells me to go out into the world and be amazing, even though according to her, I’m going to hell.”

Much of the backlash centers on Albright’s comments during a New Hampshire appearance with Clinton in February aimed at swaying young women voters.

“We can tell our story about how we climbed the ladder and a lot of you younger women don’t think you have to – it’s been done – it’s not done and you have to help,” Albright said, according to The American Mirror. “Hillary Clinton will always be there for you.

“And just remember: there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” Albright said.

Mabon derided Albright’s “special place in hell” comments, but also pointed to the former secretary of state’s role in the “Rawandan genocide” during her tenure in the Clinton administration, as well as military intervention in the Balkans that involved air strikes on former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

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“The above situations are just a few of the examples of how many mistakes Albright made during her time in office. These are mistakes that cost thousands of people their lives. Now, don’t get me wrong, I understand how big of a deal this is for the Scripps Class of 2016. It is incredibly impressive that our class representatives were able to get Albright to be our speaker; I’m not trying to minimize the work that anyone did, nor am I saying that the people involved in bringing her here are bad people to or to blame for her actions,” Mabon wrote.

“I am also not discrediting former Secretary Albright’s considerable achievements – being the first woman to be the U.S. Secretary of State is extraordinary,” she continued. “But being the first woman to do something impressive does not give you a free pass on human rights, it does not give you a free pass to be complicit in genocide …”

Albright, who will receive only travel costs to attend the Scripps commencement, attended the all-girls Wesley College, and senior class president Jennie Xu told the Los Angeles Times she thought her life story – rising from political persecution to become a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations – would inspire her classmates.

“She was our top choice,” Xu said. “I was really, really ecstatic.”

“We all share a common connection of being proud of, and being excited about, attending a college of driven young women,” said Grace Dahlstrom, class co-president.

Albright didn’t seem surprised about the controversy, and told the Times that learning to be cordial and open minded to those with different viewpoints is simply part of life.

“People have a right to state their views,” she said. “I also think they have a duty to listen to people that they might disagree with.”

That’s apparently not the same perspective shared by Scripps professors. More than two dozen have vowed not to participate in the commencement because of Albright.

“She supported several policies that led to the deaths of millions of people,” 28 professors wrote in a joint letter of opposition.

Kimberly Drake, who teaches protest writing and literature, told the Times she’s not participating because her presence on the same stage during the ceremony could “be perceived as tacit support for the values represented by Madeleine Albright.”