Commencement Speakers: Here, There, Everywhere!
Now that you've seen sufficient coverage on Barack Obama at Wesleyan, here is an interesting database of commencement speakers at universities all over the nation.
Some interesting commencement speakers not on the list:
- Harvard - J.K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter series)
- Penn - Michael Bloomberg (mayor of New York City, businessman)
- Stanford - Oprah Winfrey (media mogul, philanthropist)
- Yale - Tony Blair (former British prime minister)
- Princeton - Stephen Colbert (comedian, actor, writer)
- MIT - Muhammad Yunus (banker, economist, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient)
12 comments:
Al Gore at Carnegie Mellon O-:
That's almost as cool as getting Barack Obama but not really.
Obama>Everybody
Bloomberg spoke at Barnard this year as well.
Cornell - Maya Angelou
I found the coolest one - way cooler than Obama. Bowdoin got Yvon Chouinard... lucky motherfuckers.
JHop got Bill Nye the Science Guy!
bill nye - that is truly awesome!!!!
joel klein for columbia... that's disappointing
richard serra at williams!
The New Haven Register featured Obama at Wes with a huge above-the-fold photo and story today. Tony Blair's commencement speech at Yale was squashed down at the bottom of the page.
"anyway"
we're not even on the list... wtf?
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