hoyaLS05
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Post by hoyaLS05 on May 1, 2009 13:25:01 GMT -5
thehoya.com/node/18931Gwen Ifill (eh) Chuck Hagel (kinda cool, but he's a prof here now, so not that exciting) Luis Alberto Moreno (has a daughter here) Laurie Garrett (Author of a book on the Plague, so I guess that is timely) ...yawn...
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Post by strummer8526 on May 1, 2009 14:24:09 GMT -5
The most disappointing for me is Law: David Vladeck.
Don't get me wrong, he is an absolutely awesome guy. He's done a lot of valuable work in his career and just got appoint head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (a job through which I think he will do great things).
The problem: he's a GULC professor! I had him for class last year. I'm not graduating this year, but I'm sure that a nice % of the graduating 3Ls have had the man in class or otherwise seen him speak at the Law Center. It seems like a tad bit of a cop-out to just use one of our own as the commencement speaker.
That being said, he's a deserving guy. Just maybe more appropriate in a few years when the graduating students don't still know him as a current prof.
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TC
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Post by TC on May 1, 2009 14:25:56 GMT -5
Are they all getting honorary degrees?
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theexorcist
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Post by theexorcist on May 1, 2009 14:50:09 GMT -5
My graduation had the Reverned Bryan Hehir out of Harvard (when everyone thought we were going to get Bill), who droned on about the International Criminal Court. Way to get everyone ready to go out into the world.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on May 1, 2009 15:11:08 GMT -5
I'm happy i've at least heard of the speaker i'll be getting to hear from. (COL)
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Post by PhillyHoya on May 1, 2009 15:14:49 GMT -5
I don't even remember the speech from my year. It was the head of the Council on Foreign Relations. Christiane Amanpour was my favorite from the past few years though.
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Post by kchoya on May 1, 2009 15:54:52 GMT -5
The most disappointing for me is Law: David Vladeck. Don't get me wrong, he is an absolutely awesome guy. He's done a lot of valuable work in his career and just got appoint head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (a job through which I think he will do great things). The problem: he's a GULC professor! I had him for class last year. I'm not graduating this year, but I'm sure that a nice % of the graduating 3Ls have had the man in class or otherwise seen him speak at the Law Center. It seems like a tad bit of a cop-out to just use one of our own as the commencement speaker. That being said, he's a deserving guy. Just maybe more appropriate in a few years when the graduating students don't still know him as a current prof. I was getting ready to post the same thing. He was my CivPro prof first year. That's like having a Problem of God professor speak at the College ceremony.
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on May 1, 2009 17:38:49 GMT -5
Nothing will beat the chemistry professor from Cornell who read a poem about chemistry as the heavens opened up and drenched us during the COL 00 ceremony.
Worst. Graduation. Ever.
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SoCalHoya
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Post by SoCalHoya on May 1, 2009 18:20:34 GMT -5
The CAS should just get Birbiglia to come every year.
Unless GU starts going the "combined" graduation route, we'll never get the heavy-hitters. Though I must admit that some of the "lightweights" are better speakers anyway.
Happy Weekend everyone.
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Post by redskins12820 on May 2, 2009 11:49:11 GMT -5
Wendy Kopp (sp?) gave a pretty good speech last year to the college. Christiane Amanpour would have been awesome though.
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 2, 2009 20:42:54 GMT -5
Why today's students put up with the BS of separate speakers puzzles me. The adminsitration wants people to forget the tradition of a unified commencement and so far they have succeeded.
One class, one ceremony. You don't know what you're missing.
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Post by strummer8526 on May 2, 2009 21:12:39 GMT -5
Why today's students put up with the BS of separate speakers puzzles me. The adminsitration wants people to forget the tradition of a unified commencement and so far they have succeeded. One class, one ceremony. You don't know what you're missing. The only problem is calling the names. How could that work w/ so many students now? I'd prefer one ceremony so as to get the best speaker possible, but listening to 4 hours of names would be excruciating.
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Post by washingtonhoya on May 2, 2009 21:37:46 GMT -5
Never saw why Convocation couldn't draw a large speaker with the individual degrees being conferred in separate ceremonies. Seems like that would be the most logical solution, but that's just me.
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Post by PhillyHoya on May 2, 2009 23:39:14 GMT -5
Never saw why Convocation couldn't draw a large speaker with the individual degrees being conferred in separate ceremonies. Seems like that would be the most logical solution, but that's just me. That's definitely a good idea. Isn't that what happened in '82 when Mother Teresa spoke? It felt like that was the case my senior year because Tagliabue was the convo speaker and he was higher profile than any of the grad speakers (Ken Burns is the only one I can even remember other than mine). So graduation was just like a formality.
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SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on May 3, 2009 0:00:45 GMT -5
I don't care about the speakers.
But it sucked not to see all of my friends walking across the stage. It's something you want to celebrate with them.
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Post by The Stig on May 3, 2009 1:18:53 GMT -5
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Post by washingtonhoya on May 3, 2009 10:33:18 GMT -5
I don't care about the speakers. But it sucked not to see all of my friends walking across the stage. It's something you want to celebrate with them. It's still certainly possible. I'm graduating in 13 days* and I fully intend to go to the College, SFS, and NHS graduations in addition to my own. It's not ideal, but all things considered I'd rather watch them from a bad seat on the lawn than sit through a ceremony reading off 1500 names. * Yikes that was terrifying to type.
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SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on May 3, 2009 12:15:46 GMT -5
They weren't spaced that well when I graduated.
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Post by LizziebethHoya on May 3, 2009 13:29:45 GMT -5
I don't care about the speakers. But it sucked not to see all of my friends walking across the stage. It's something you want to celebrate with them. That was the hardest part -- seeing all of my friends graduate from the college in pictures (I was out to graduation lunch with my family) while I was left alone at the SFS graduation with people I went to class with, but I didn't consider my best friends. A few GREAT non-graduating friends of mine (who may or may not post on this board ) came to see me graduate, but lot of my other non-graduating friends all told me that they couldn't sit through more than one, and they had to choose the one with the most people they wanted to see (college). I completely understood, but it was hard. That said, the <2 hour ceremony is pretty nice....I really just wanted the thing over with because I never wanted it to happen in the first place.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on May 4, 2009 9:36:58 GMT -5
The most disappointing for me is Law: David Vladeck. Is he any relation to the very popular Prof. Stephen Valdeck at American?
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