As at many other colleges, Knox begins its speaker selection process with a wish list from the graduating seniors.
This for applicants from the graduating class of 2011, for which the National Associaton of Colleges and Employers reported an average starting salary of $41,701, and $35,503 for humanities and social science graduates.
He was greeted by cheers from the graduating cadets when he noted that they had the distinction of being "the first class to graduate since 9/11 who may not be sent into combat in Iraq or Afghanistan".
Under the soaring dome of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, the financier George Soros delivered a blistering attack on President Bush that was interrupted by applause from the graduating students at Columbia University's international affairs school.
Todd Siler, a teacher at Wyoming High School, said Monday that he saw two of Warmbier's friends from the graduating class of 2013, of which he was salutatorian, earlier Monday.
Her excellence in teaching was honored by the 1994 Harvey Levin Teaching Award from the graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the 2002 Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence from Harvard Law School.
