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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I love that idea!
ha!
I agree, but sadly these students have Moms, Dad,Grandparents and others that have waited years to celebrate a child's achievement and leave to some liberal retards to stain that memory with someone like chrisytingel.
How sad that this graduation date sneaked up on them without proper planning for the commencement speaker. Makes me want to puke!
With a graduating class for all degrees of probably 10,000, each college will hold separate ceremonies. The law school, the college of engineering, the graduate college, and so forth. The college of arts and sciences will probably have 3000 students.
I’d prefer to see them stand and turn their backs to him as he speaks.
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