<p>The criteria were that the speaker had to come from the CC “family” (either an alum or related to a student), be willing to speak for free, and not have spoken in the last ten years. Fox was an alum ('89) who played on the football team when it broke its infamous 44-game losing streak…which they stressed a lot during the announcement. I get the feeling the selection committee faced a lot of refusals, but that this guy was so high on the list even then…is pathetic and absurd.</p>
<p>Luckily for all the applicants here, debacles like this will be remembered - and never repeated. Such a letdown after a speaker as significant as McCain last year (ironically he’ll have to sit through this since his daughter is a class of '07 grad…)</p>