"Part of what is important about the all-gender bathroom project, and about putting it at the top of our commencement site, is this is about public signaling".
In what was the latest in student activism around the issue, students were encouraged to place red duct tape on the tops of mortar boards during commencement by Our Harvard Can Do Better, an undergraduate student group advocating for better sexual violence policies.
Now that graduation season is upon us, Michael Savage is curious why it seems that it's always prominent liberals who are being asked to give the commencement addresses at the top universities, while conservatives for the most part are shunned (listen to clip).
When Obama accepted the invitation to speak at the ASU commencement, the news was top secret.
View complete list: Top 50 Books for Summer The novel Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan also made several summer reading lists.
Top ten lists are always popular in Commencement speeches, but the best speakers understand it's not a day for complex messages.
Elin Nordegren has graduated college at the top of her class, and in a commencement speech delivered Saturday in Florida, she got the greatest audience reaction when she slipped in comments referring to her tumultuous divorce from pro golfer Tiger Woods. .
Thus I found myself on Commencement morning sporting not only the top hat, striped pants and cutaway coat of a Marshal's Aid, but the pink triangle buttons of a politically committed one.
Behind The Numbers Our list was compiled by tracking where the graduates of top universities across the country ended up 10 years after commencement; where the best business opportunities exist; which cities had the most young and unmarried people; and which cities paid young professionals the best.
TEMPE, ARIZONA - Universities typically confer an honorary degree on commencement speakers, particularly those who have reached the pinnacle of their career or achieved the top of their field.
