Posted on 04/01/2014 7:42:15 AM PDT by don-o
Some Ohio State University students are upset that they had no say in picking this year’s spring commencement speaker, a break with past practice.
Provost Joseph Steinmetz and his Office of Academic Affairs alone decided to invite MSNBC talk-show host Chris Matthews to speak at the May 4 ceremony at Ohio Stadium. In the past, the university asked a committee of students and staff for a recommendation. This year, there wasn’t time, OSU officials said.
“Because of time constraints and leadership changes during the past year, the decision was made to use a more streamlined approach to speaker selection for spring 2014 commencement,” OSU spokesman Gary Lewis said in an email.
Amid the search for a new president and other shuffles in top jobs, Steinmetz and his office made the final decision, Lewis said.
News that Matthews will speak hasn’t been well-received among students, said Taylor Stepp, president of the undergraduate student government. Complaints about Matthews’s liberal views are common, Stepp said, but students are equally upset that the university didn’t draw a bigger name.
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Hope they provide a drool bucket for him.
Others do know who he is,and that’s a problem too.
> Hope they provide a drool bucket for him.
LOL!!
I was JUST thinking the SAME thing!
Hope their mics are waterproof.
“Graduates, when you take that first STEP towards the next phase of your life, I hope you feel a tingle in your leg.”
If this were my graduation ceremony, I simply would not attend……...
He might also need a ground wire for his tingly leg.
What? Ed Schultz wasn’t available? Rachel Maddow? Yeah, if I’m a president at a major university MSNBC is the last place I’d be looking for a commencement speaker.
If Matthews does end up speaking at the commencement it will be the largest viewing audience he’s had in years.
That’ll end up being an hour and a half of Hissy Chrissy talking about the love of his life Zero. *PAIN*
What a great opportunity for a FReep.
Must be an open bar promised.
It would appear "Provost" needs to be one of the "shuffles."
“This year, there wasn’t time,..”
What? They have all new students in their graduating class?
That's one of the lamest excuses I've heard. "no time", uh-huh....
“.........I simply would not attend.......”
Me too......BUT my dramatic side tells me that a mass grad walk-out
on video would be a great keepsake and fun, too.
It is not only students who will be upset about this choice. Ohio State, after all, is a major Ohio institution.
Now just what could this babbling head have to offer the student body?
William Flax
Castro wasn’t feeling well, the Communist-in-Chief had a golf date, and Chavez is dead...
Matthews is the best they could do!
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