Posted on 06/12/2008 12:29:13 PM PDT by bs9021
Commencement Celebrities
by: Deborah Lambert, June 12, 2008
According to USA Today, it appears that students are having more of a say in determining who will give the annual commencement address.
This year’s list of luminaries—and others— who will give the class of 2008 a sendoff include:
Oprah Winfrey—Stanford University
J.K. Rowling—Harvard University
Jon Stewart—William and Mary
Craig Newmark of Craig’s List—Case Western Reserve
Jessica Lange—Sarah Lawrence College
Brian Williams—Ohio State University
Michael Bloomberg—University of Pennsylvania
David McCullough— Boston College
Meredith Viera—Tufts University
Al Gore—Carnegie Mellon University
Sandra Day O'Connor—Gettysburg College
Carl Bernstein—University of Maryland...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Parents and grads need to boycott the commencements.
What, no Britney or Paris?
Lucky Boston College. Its got the only ceremony worth attending.
Cal Ripkin wouldn’t be so bad, either.
I believe it is traditional to pick your graduation speaker in the Second Year of College.
I had to listen to John F Kerry at my daughter’s commencement at Wheelock College in Boston. It was painful.
That is a seriously lightweight lineup. At least we got the sitting governor of the state (Gerald Baliles, Virginia) when I graduated in 1987. He was dull, but he KNEW he was dull, so he kept his speech short.
Cal Ripken’s the best of the lot.
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What could Jessica Lange possibly say that would be worth hearing?
Bob Dole spoke at my daughter’s commnecement from Colby. He was wonderful, brief and funny. Of course, there were the usual suspects standing there with their backs to him with stickers on their gowns with a pineapple with a slash.
This was not this year...1993. Seems like yesterday.
Apparently the imbeciles on the panel thought that her portrayal of a farm wife was reason enough. They think that merely learning and reciting lines in front of a movie camera qualifies one as an expert.
How ruinous of a university commencement gathering to permit such unqualifed bozos to spout off.
“How ruinous of a university commencement gathering to permit such unqualifed bozos to spout off.”
Please. Who cares? Who listens? Who remembers?
It’s about bringing “celebrity” to a graduation thus moving the public’s awareness of the institution.
I guess satisfaction is in one's interpretation of this term.
As far as moving attendees' awareness of the institution it would certainly do that. However the approval rating of the institution would end up in the cellar.
Years ago at one of my commencements the governor of the state gave the address and all found it brief and moving, especially considering that governor was a conservative and wasn't so damned full of himself that he didn't bore.
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