<p>When my brother graduated from the University of Michigan, Walter Cronkite was the speaker. He was fantastic. When I graduated from Eastern Michigan, it was C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General at the time. At my alma mater, each commencement highlighted a different college. So the year I graduated, it was the College of Health and Human Services hence- C. Everett Koop. The speaker was someone relevant the college being highlighted. </p>
<p>“Joe Biden is also speaking at the University of South Carolina. He gets around…it must be in his job description.”</p>
<p>He gets paid to go to commencements and funerals. </p>
<p>“I had the governor at my commencement and would have much preferred to have an entertainer.”</p>
<p>Only if the entertainer is entertaining. Most of them are dull if they are playing themselves.</p>
<h2>I’ll prefer a politician or an actor over Steve Ballmer!!! We have had enough of this guy!</h2>
<p>Wellesley College:
<a href=“Susan Wagner to Deliver 2014 Commencement Address at Wellesley | Spotlight | Wellesley College”>http://www.wellesley.edu/news/2014/4/node/43266</a></p>
<p>Why don’t you like Ballmer?</p>
<p>why do we have so many actors? next we will have brittany spears and lindsay lohan.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Miley Cyrus.</p>
<p>Goldenpooch, this: <a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube;
<p>My buddies at MSFT like their new CEO. They say he is un-MSFT like cool and innovative. </p>
<p>BunsenBurner, I looked at the youtube video of Ballmer. Yeah, that was pretty crazy but I was definitely more amused by another video I saw where Ballmer predicted that nobody would buy the iphone.</p>
<p>Speaking of Steve (Jobs), his commencement speech at Stanford was legendary.</p>
<p>Life will imitate art when Ed Helms, the actor who portrayed the fictional Cornell alumnus Andy Bernard ’93 on the television comedy “The Office,” speaks at Senior Convocation on Saturday, May 24, during Cornell’s 2014 Graduation Weekend</p>
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Amherst College always has the college president as commencement speaker. It’s not that they can’t afford otherwise. I think they are just very committed to that choice.</p>
<p>Well, cross Condoleeza Rice off the list. She decided to not go to Rutgers’ commencement after student protests:</p>
<p><a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost;
<p>“…some students and faculty had protested, staging sit-ins and saying Rice bore some responsibility for the Iraq War as a member of the Bush administration. (Rutgers President) Barchi and other school leaders had resisted the calls to disinvite Rice, saying the university welcomes open discourse on controversial topics.”</p>
<p>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Michael S. Hopkins, Astronaut</p>
<p>It looks like Condoleezza Rice backed out of the Rutgers Commencement.</p>
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<p>Well, in Dartmouth’s case, Shonda Rhimes is a highly successful alum. Meredith Grey is also a Dartmouth alum. McDreamy went to Bowdoin (Patrick Stewart is from Maine), Bailey went to Wellesley, and Christina to Smith undergrad. (I think she has a grad degree from Stanford.) :)</p>
<p>Terry Gross will be the speaker at Bryn Mawr College this year.</p>
<p>Went to a college commencement Friday night. About 12,000 were sitting in stands at civic auditorium, about another 1500 graduates walked at ceremony. The keynote speaker was soft spoken and the public address system wasn’t tweaked right so we really don’t know what he said. Watched the taped keynote speech today for a few minutes on the college’s website…speech was lame on replay anyway.</p>
<p>I hope Rutgers gets Miley Cyrus as their backup speaker. As rude and classless as some of the students and faculty were, that’s exactly who they deserve. Maybe she can bring along her African Amerucan backup singers to smack on the butt, I’m sure that would be more acceptable than a classy, accomplished, brilliant black woman.</p>
<p>Though I feel sorry for the students and faculty who were against the protests.</p>
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<p>Well, when Eric Idle gave the commencement speech at Whitman, it was because his daughter was graduating…</p>