[Helms]

Don't know but they kill two birds with 1 stone when they are paid to spew. The Liberal Plantation which is US Academia is a large Plantation with many intricate webs of reward (and I am sure punishment if you do not plow the furrowed fields for the Plantation owner).

Commencement 2004:

University of Pennsylvania- Bono : http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4056acbc4429f

Middlebury College- Christopher Reeve

Berkely- Ted Koppel: http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=14574

Lani Guinier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/03/1113commence.html

Smith College- Judy Woodruff: http://www.smith.edu/commencement/speaker.php

Cornell= Clinton

Duke- Albright

Wellsley- Toni Morrison: http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2004/030504.html

Hobart and William Smith: Chris Matthews

[Grampa Dave]

Your list shows that it pays to be an out of work left wing lunatic who is willing to run down American and GW in a speech at a college or university.

Commencement 2004:

University of Pennsylvania- Bono : http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4056acbc4429f

Middlebury College- Christopher Reeve

Berkely- Ted Koppel: http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=14574

Lani Guinier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/03/1113commence.html

Smith College- Judy Woodruff: http://www.smith.edu/commencement/speaker.php

Cornell= Clinton

Duke- Albright

Wellsley- Toni Morrison: http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2004/030504.html

Hobart and William Smith: Chris Matthews

[Grampa Dave]

Go to this link to check out the fees that some of these speakers get for 30 minutes at a college.

http://www.speaking.com/universities.html