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Why Isn't There a Speaker at Commencement?
Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:21 am
Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:21 am
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:48 am to Kraut Dawg
I had one in 2006. John Blackburn spoke at the main ceremonies.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 7:56 am to Kraut Dawg
I'm glad we didn't have one. I wouldn't trust the university to bring in someone I was interested in listening to.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:48 am to pvilleguru
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I'm glad we didn't have one. I wouldn't trust the university to bring in someone I was interested in listening to.
In fairness to them, most of your classmates have zero interest in the Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 10:59 am to Evolved Simian
I'm not a Spurs fan.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:07 am to Kraut Dawg
Just tell her never to give up, don't let people tell you that you can't do it, anything is possible, dream big. That simulates 99% of these speeches.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:20 am to CrimsonCrusade
If Charlie Day isn't the speaker, then I don't want them.
He really gave a great speech. It's all on YouTube if you want to look it up.
He really gave a great speech. It's all on YouTube if you want to look it up.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 11:39 am to Kraut Dawg
I don't think there was one in December either. Commencement addresses normally suck, so it's better this way. The day should be about the graduates.
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Posted on 5/16/17 at 5:16 pm to Kraut Dawg
Sidenote: It's actually pretty amazing how many famous people you can lure with "honorary degrees" Especially considering a lot of famous people dropped out or skipped college all together.
Posted on 5/16/17 at 9:44 pm to Kraut Dawg
There hasn't been one for as long as I remember and I've been going to graduations fairly consistently since 2010. I believe in the late 2000s there was a controversial speaker and the University just said frick it and decided not to have speakers anymore. I honestly approve of it. There are already something like 5 different Spring Commencements and most people leave right after their/their kid's name is called anyway. Adding a commencement speaker would only make it worse. If they added a commencement speaker I'd hope they'd go the way of Tulane (and maybe other schools) and have a unified commencement that had the graduation speaker and then have the commencement by college/school where they actually call the person's name and they cross the stage.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 8:57 am to pvilleguru
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I'm glad we didn't have one. I wouldn't trust the university to bring in someone I was interested in listening to.
Same. I'm glad we didn't have one either. The overall ceremony barely took 2 hours, wasn't really a need for a speaker.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 1:02 pm to yellowhammer2098
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There hasn't been one for as long as I remember and I've been going to graduations fairly consistently since 2010. I believe in the late 2000s there was a controversial speaker and the University just said frick it and decided not to have speakers anymore.
Nailed it.
Posted on 5/17/17 at 3:17 pm to pvilleguru
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I'm glad we didn't have one. I wouldn't trust the university to bring in someone I was interested in listening to.
Always depends on the speaker. My son and daughter-in-law just graduated from UGA. Ernie Johnson, Jr gave the commencement and it was awesome...the rest of the ceremony was meh, but everyone was riveted while Ernie spoke...
Posted on 5/17/17 at 6:03 pm to OldPete
quote:Sounds like a NASCAR driver.
Ernie Johnson, Jr
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