OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by Scott Kominkiewicz '84
OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: Scott Kominkiewicz '84 (---.157.65.192.dial1.weehawken1.level3.net)
Date: May 16, 2002 07:03PM
The CU homepage announces that Danny Glover will be this year's commencement speaker. When did Cornell change its policy of having its president serve as commencement speaker? BTW, I thought Frank Rhodes was pretty damn effective.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.ne.client2.attbi.com)
Date: May 16, 2002 07:42PM
This is the first I've heard of a change..but that doesn't mean it hasn't been changed for a long time.
Who or what is Danny Glover, and why should about-to-be Cornell graduates care what he/she/it has to say?
Please tell me Cornell isn't seeking cheap notoriety by handing out bogus honorary degrees now.
Who or what is Danny Glover, and why should about-to-be Cornell graduates care what he/she/it has to say?
Please tell me Cornell isn't seeking cheap notoriety by handing out bogus honorary degrees now.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: curoadkill (---.twcny.rr.com)
Date: May 16, 2002 07:46PM
I'm pretty sure it's convocation and not commencement that Danny Glover is speaking at. That's what I see on the CU homepage anyway.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: Greg Berge (---.dial.spiritone.com)
Date: May 16, 2002 08:56PM
Well, one Dan Glover is an incoming defenseman for the fall of 2003.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.utb.edu)
Date: May 17, 2002 12:55AM
This is, after all, standard operating procedure. There is a guest speaker (ours was David Drinkwater, in a wonderful you've-never-heard-of-him-but-he-means-a-lot-to-us move), but he/she speaks at a separate event and not the commencement itself. And does not get an honorary degree.
Trivia question: name the only two people ever to receive honorary degrees from Cornell.
Trivia question: name the only two people ever to receive honorary degrees from Cornell.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: rhovorka (---.stny.rr.com)
Date: May 17, 2002 02:17AM
Trivia Answer: A.D. White and the first president of Stanford (who I had to look up as being David Starr Jordan, also a graduate of the first 4-year class at Cornell)
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.ne.client2.attbi.com)
Date: May 17, 2002 06:45AM
Both worthy choices.
Andrew Dickson White, along with Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins and Charles William Eliot of Harvard, changed the face of American higher education in the latter half of the 19th century.
Andrew Dickson White, along with Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins and Charles William Eliot of Harvard, changed the face of American higher education in the latter half of the 19th century.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.utb.edu)
Date: May 17, 2002 08:36AM
Al DeFlorio wrote:
...and ironically also established the policy of not awarding honorary degrees.
Andrew Dickson White, along with Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins and Charles William Eliot of Harvard, changed the face of American higher education in the latter half of the 19th century.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.ne.client2.attbi.com)
Date: May 17, 2002 09:10AM
Quite a visionary, eh?
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: Erica (---.mgh.harvard.edu)
Date: May 17, 2002 12:30PM
Who is Danny Glover? Didja ever see Lethal Weapon 1, 2, 3, or 4? He also happens to be a big activist, in what I don't know.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: Scott Kominkiewicz '84 (---.157.73.111.dial1.weehawken1.level3.net)
Date: May 17, 2002 03:57PM
I'm pretty sure it's convocation and not commencement that Danny Glover is speaking at. That's what I see on the CU homepage anyway.
My bad. I guess I should practice what I preach and read more carefully. But still, why Danny Glover? I'd rather hear from Derrick Harmon.
My bad. I guess I should practice what I preach and read more carefully. But still, why Danny Glover? I'd rather hear from Derrick Harmon.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: Greg Berge (---.dial.spiritone.com)
Date: May 20, 2002 11:09PM
I thought the following situation was funny. This year's University of Oregon commencement speaker is Katie Marie Harman. For anyone not in Oregon, she's Our Very Own F*cking Miss America (I think that's her official title) and we're proud of her thank you.
Anyway, there was a whole big deal about it because she's a current UO student (I assume her major is Applied Makeup) and at first they were actually going to give her the honorary degree, but that (obviously) cheesed off the students. This is what passes for controversy out here.
Anyway, there was a whole big deal about it because she's a current UO student (I assume her major is Applied Makeup) and at first they were actually going to give her the honorary degree, but that (obviously) cheesed off the students. This is what passes for controversy out here.
There she is ... our commencement speaker
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.utb.edu)
Date: May 20, 2002 11:21PM
Well, it is supposed to be a scholarship program...
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: cquinn (---.bur.adelphia.net)
Date: May 21, 2002 07:30PM
Speaking of speeches.... I'll be giving one this weekend and need to provide a bio for my introduction. Anybody know how to say "goes to loads of Cornell hockey games" in a manner that would be terribly impressive to the non-believer? )
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.phys.utb.edu)
Date: May 21, 2002 08:05PM
You could mention your CHA membership, which makes you a supporter of intercollegiate athletics at your alma mater.
Re: OT: Commencement Speaker
Posted by: jeh25 (130.132.105.---)
Date: May 22, 2002 08:47AM
"In her spare time, Christine follows Cornell hockey with a level of intensity normally only observed in people like Jim Jones or Ted Kaczynski...."
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