<p>Here’s an example of a great and inspiring speech that a friend (parent of an '05 Wes grad) emailed me:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsrel/pressreleases/gutmanncomm05.html”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsrel/pressreleases/gutmanncomm05.html</a></p>
<p>Last year, Phil Donohue was commencement speaker for NC State. Half way through his incredibly political speech, you could hear the booing start and some grads even walked out. Rather sad.</p>
<p>ariesathena, it’s a good thought, but I doubt that it would do any good. The speakers are selected by the senior class leadership. Given the dominance of liberals at Cornell, the leadership is effectively an extension of the Democrat’s Club which apparently campaigns on the platform of keeping non-liberals from speaking at graduation.</p>
<p>Mr. B, normally I would agree with you when a college is having a talk in which choice to attend is involved. Graduation is not one of those situations.</p>