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	2004 commencement speaker named - The New Hampshire - News
		Jemison was secured as the commencement speaker about two weeks ago after the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee, made up of faculty and students, created a list of three candidates to recommend to the president's office.
		According to Sanborn, the speakers who were recommended to the president were either too expensive to bring to UNH or were unavailable during the weekend of graduation.
		She said she stressed to the committee the importance of the graduates being able to relate to the speaker during graduation, a time to celebrate the students and their accomplishments at the University.
	www.tnhonline.com /news/2004/04/30/News/2004-Commencement.Speaker.Named-675961.shtml (599 words)

	Hall named commencement speaker - The Lantern - Campus
		Bill Hall, the longtime Ohio State vice president for student affairs, accepted an invitation to be the spring commencement speaker after a unanimous recommendation by the commencement committee.
		The commencement committee, which is comprised of students, faculty and administrators was charged by the president last summer to recommend commencement speakers who would bring an interesting and challenging message to students, are good public speakers, and who students want to hear, Murphy said.
		"We wanted to (decide on a speaker) sooner rather than later, but we were at the point where we had three or four really, really strong names that had surfaced and we were about to go back to the committee with those," Murphy said.
	www.thelantern.com /news/2005/04/25/Campus/Hall-Named.Commencement.Speaker-936441.shtml (1019 words)

	No keynote speaker for commencement - Friday Mar. 29, 2002 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Patti Ota, senior associate to the president, said administrative officials tracked the length of commencement ceremonies over 10 years and found that ceremonies sometimes lasted up to three hours and also lost focus on the students who were graduating.
		Sarah Griggs, director of commencement at the University of Washington, said for their school, commencement speakers are a tradition.
		Ota said finding the guest speaker is considered as one of the most hated duties of a university president because invitations sent out to prospective speakers are only answered about one-third of the time.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/95/126/01_1.html (423 words)

	Students Surprised by Commencement Speaker Decision - The Sophian - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The students are given an opportunity to vote for a speaker and then the president contacts the three individuals with the highest numbers of votes.
		Fenlason responded that when President Christ picks a speaker not on the list of nominees, she "concentrates on finding someone who will give an excellent speech and who is worthy of an honorary degree.
		It does not matter in what field a speaker works." The commencement speaker does not have to be a woman to speak or to receive an honorary degree from the college.
	thesophian.collegepublisher.com /media/paper587/news/2005/03/03/News/Students.Surprised.By.Commencement.Speaker.Decision-882077.shtml (653 words)

	Commencement speaker will be non-traditional student - Free Press - News
		This year's student commencement speaker is Sandra Hammel Rivard, a social and behavioral science major and a resident of Brunswick, Maine.
		She is very proud to have been selected as this years student commencement speaker.
		Originally, she had not planned to walk at Commencement but chose to submit a speech due to encouragement from one of her professors.
	www.usmfreepress.org /news/2004/05/03/News/Commencement.Speaker.Will.Be.NonTraditional.Student-677364.shtml (374 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Ernesto Zedillo named 2003 Commencement speaker
		Zedillo, currently a professor in the field of international economics and politics at Yale University and director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, led Mexico through major economic and financial challenges.
		Like other Harvard Commencement speakers, Zedillo will speak during the Afternoon Exercises' annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
		Previous Commencement speakers include former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan; former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Mary Robinson, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights and former president of the Republic of Ireland.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/04.10/09-zedillo.html (715 words)

	Justice O’Connor Named Law School Commencement Speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By speaking at the Law School Commencement, she joins her colleague William Rehnquist, chief justice, who addressed graduates in 2000.
		Commencement exercises will begin at 1:30 pm in the Smith Center.
		For more information on GW’s Commencement ceremonies on the Ellipse scheduled for the weekend of May 16–18, visit www.gwu.edu/~grad03.
	www.gwu.edu /~bygeorge/031803/lawcommence.html (183 words)

	Seniors 2003: Commencement Speaker Nominations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Commencement Speaker Advisory Committee is soliciting suggestions from rising seniors to request individuals whom you would like to hear at commencement.
		May Commencement speakers are typically from outside of campus and have a distinguished career that would afford a unique message to UNC.
		The most effective speakers in the past (with some exceptions) have been speakers with some prior connection to UNC for whom it was truly an honor to be invited.
	ils.unc.edu /studentgovt/seniors/commencement.html (242 words)

	No Commencement Speaker Named Yet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The previous two Commencement speakers were announced 16 and 19 weeks before the ceremony.
		Last year's Commencement took place May 27 and the choice of speaker, The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, was announced Feb.
		The latest a Commencement speaker was announced in the past five years was when then-Secretary of Defense Les Aspin PhD '66 was named on March 31, 1992 to speak at the June 1 event.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V115/N15/speaker.15n.html (369 words)

	Harvard Commencement 2005
		The Commencement Office organizes all aspects of the Commencement Day ceremony in Harvard Yard, with the exception of press and media relations.
		Single-camera recordings are made of the diploma ceremonies at all of the houses and several of the graduate schools.
		Essays on the history of Commencement, academic garb; lists of previous speakers and honorary degree recipients.
	www.commencement.harvard.edu (365 words)

	The Thresher Online: New, better speaker selection process (November 1, 1996)
		The growing concern over the commencement speaker issue in the past two years served as an impetus to investigate the current process and to find a solution this year.
		From these polls, the top five speakers are ranked, and their names are forwarded to President Malcolm Gillis, who calls each speaker until he finds one who agrees to speak at commencement.
		Moreover, nationally-recognized speakers may find larger campuses more conducive to their own situations and find that Rice's relatively small audience is insufficient incentive to speak here, Munson said.
	www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/84/961101/News/Story05.html (803 words)

	U-M COMMENCEMENT STUDENT SPEAKER ENTRY
		The Office of the Vice President for Communications is issuing a call for entries for a student speaker at Winter Commencement.
		Students interested in speaking at Commencement are invited to submit a typed draft of their speech, to be less than five minutes in length, accompanied by a standard audiocassette tape or CD audio recording of the author delivering the speech, and a curriculum vitae or résumé.
		Students interested in speaking at Commencement are invited to submit a typed draft of their speech, to be less than five minutes in length, accompanied by a standard audiocassette tape or CD of the author delivering the speech, and a curriculum vitae or résumé.
	www.umich.edu /~gradinfo/other/student_speaker.html (201 words)

	UN leader Kofi Annan named Commencement speaker: 2/00
		Chiu, speaking on behalf of the class presidents, said they were very enthusiastic about their choice and excited about Annan's acceptance of the offer to speak at Stanford's commencement.
		In addition, Annan has used the stature of the Secretary-General's office in an attempt to gain Iraq's compliance with Security Council resolutions as well as in his missions to help promote the transition to civilian rule in Nigeria and to resolve a stalemate between Libya and the Security Council over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
		Commencement will be held on June 11, and is part of a two-day celebration for graduates, their families and friends and members of the Stanford community.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2000/february16/commence-216.html (430 words)

	The Thresher Online: LETTER: New process to nominate commencement speaker (November 8, 1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Members of previous Commencement Speaker committees have invested great amounts of time, and it can be really disappointing to see all that work go to waste.
		Finally, submitting a list of prioritized names to President Malcolm Gillis that includes speakers of international, national and regional reputation as well as of the Rice community will ensure not only that a speaker will be chosen but also that the students will have voted on and preferred the speaker.
		Applications for the Commencement Speaker committees for the Class of 1998 and the Class of 1999 are available now in the Student Association office and are due today at 5 p.m.
	www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/84/961108/Opinion/Story09.html (340 words)

	PHC \| Second Graduation Features Dr. Tim LaHaye as Commencement Speaker
		It is the College's special honor to have had the commencement address delivered by Dr. Tim LaHaye, whose wife, Beverly, was also in attendance to bestow an award given in her name.
		The student remarks were a touching highlight of the ceremony as each graduate spoke of his or her spiritual growth, the theme of the graduates' chosen Scripture verse (I Corinthians 13:11-12).
		At the second commencement exercises of Patrick Henry College, 100 percent of the graduates were indeed renewed in their purpose to live by faith and commitment.
	www.phc.edu /news/docs/200305301.asp (574 words)

	Student Commencement Speaker
		Each year a member of the undergraduate graduating class is chosen to represent their class as student speaker at the Commencement Exercises.
		Commencement is “...one of the punctuation marks” of your life [Gamble and Gamble].
		The spotlight may seem to be on you, but your job is to refocus its beam on your classmates and the commencement event.
	www.bridgew.edu /StudentAffairs/studentspeaker.htm (736 words)

	College of Wooster: News
		In addition to the approximately 400 undergraduate degrees to be conferred, Wooster will also present three honorary degrees during commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2004.
		Each of the honorary degree recipients has contributed to the academic mission at Wooster through previous visits to campus, and all three have been activists for social, political, or environmental justice.
		Commencement weekend begins with the planting of the class tree on Saturday, May 8, at 3 p.m.
	www.wooster.edu /news/0304/Commencement2004.php (638 words)

	National Review: On the Right - Hillary at Yale? - protests over Hillary Clinton as commencement speaker - Brief Article
		The idea of the band of conservative students is not to disrupt the commencement proceedings, but to boycott at least that part of it in which she will figure.
		Her formal credentials are resplendently there: the degree from the law school, her distinguished career in the school, and all that followed, capped by her unambiguous election as United States senator.
		Students need to draw a line between speakers who oughtn't to have been invited, to whom an invitation to highlight a ceremonial event is outrageous, demanding full-frontal protest, and others who are simply wrongheaded.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_8_53/ai_73090186 (756 words)

	UNLV Commencement: Student Commencement Speakers
		Both an undergraduate and graduate/professional student speaker are selected each semester to address the graduating class at commencement.
		The speakers, who are selected through a competition held each semester, must be members of the graduating class they plan to address.
		The committees review the applications, meet with participants in the competition, and select the speakers by the end of November for winter commencement and by the end of April for spring commencement.
	commencement.unlv.edu /speaker.html (271 words)

	2004 Commencement Speaker Information & Application
		Speaker must be a graduating student, eligible to participate in commencement.
		One speech per graduating student may be submitted and it is encouraged that the speech be the original creation of the presenter.
		The student speaker is chosen by a committee made up of students, faculty and staff.
	www.usm.maine.edu /destinationgraduation/CommencementSpeaker.htm (327 words)

	USATODAY.com - It's not easy being a speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The decision by the University of St. Francis to uninvite surgeon Nancy Snyderman, a former medical correspondent for ABC News, just days before commencement exercises was prompted by a local bishop who said comments Snyderman once made about an abortion procedure were contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church.
		And when word spread in March that President Bush would welcome an invitation to speak at the University of Arizona's commencement Saturday, it was faculty, staff and graduate students who raised a ruckus, with nearly 400 signing a letter arguing that his appearance would be inappropriate in an election year.
		If the words and deeds of commencement speakers "are intended to serve as guideposts," the researchers write in a letter to universities explaining their plans, "how have these role models changed and what do (they) tell us about the values and aspirations of the American people?"
	www.usatoday.com /life/2004-05-12-not-easy-speakers_x.htm (1709 words)

	Commencement speaker selection committee changes-The Bucknellian-September 12
		This committee, which was in place three years ago, has been reinstated, and is made up of the three senior class officers, three faculty members and three members of the administration.
		Faculty may view the commencement address as the last teachable moment in the life of the graduating class.
		Students want a speaker who is engaging, inspiring, and prominent,” Bowen wrote in his campus-wide-e-mail.
	www.bucknell.edu /Student_Organizations/Arts_News_Entertainment/Bucknellian/Archives/2003_09_12/News/Commencement.html (848 words)

	04.10.2001 - Janet Reno to be keynote speaker at UC Berkeley's May 9 commencement convocation
		Reno was among the most requested keynote speakers for Commencement Convocation in a survey taken last summer of more than 9,000 UC Berkeley students eligible to be seniors in fall 2001, said UC Berkeley senior Humaira Merchant.
		Merchant declined to name other top keynote speakers suggested by UC Berkeley seniors for the 2001 event in order "to respect their privacy," she said, "and because they may be asked again by future classes."
		New at Commencement Convocation this year will be a procession of seniors, wearing academic gowns, into the amphitheater.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2001/04/10_jreno.html (484 words)

	The New York Times > Education > Want a Big-Name Speaker for Commencement? A Private Jet Helps
		The choice of commencement speaker reflects not only a desire to inspire graduates to greater heights, but also to inspire alumni to contribute.
		Justice O'Connor agreed to speak at Centre's commencement on May 23 after she was asked by two of the college's alumni whom she knows personally.
		Those institutions that do not pay their speakers say that while this can make the process more difficult, it is worth the extra effort.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/05/09/education/09COMM.html?ex=1399435200&en=86f244e8d140c898&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (1061 words)

	JawsBlog » Commencement Speaker
		This year’s commencement speaker and honorary degree recipients have been announced.
		Also, it’s tradition for the name of the speaker to be leaked to the Justice the night before so they can have the exclusive; either that didn’t happen, or they leaked it themselves.
		Last year’s speaker was the chief justice of Israel’s supreme court.
	brandeiswiz.onefinejay.com /2004/03/29/1523 (835 words)

	Vassar College: Commencement Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And the commencement speech had about it the quality of a grudge match, of a settling of scores.
		Beyond that, what to say, I could read some bad reviews I've gotten, I don't have a ring binder but I have several of the most malicious committed to memory, it would be a chance for payback for the critics I particularly dislike.
		WHAT AM I DOING HERE, or perhaps another way of putting it, WHY ME? Which is a very useful question, two simple words which, depending on their inflection, can express everything from dark-night-of-the-soul-delving to adenoidal self-pitying whininess, either one of which is suitable to the occasion of graduating from college.
	www.vassar.edu /commencement/020526.kushner.html (1610 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Kofi Annan to speak at Afternoon Exercises
		Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will be Harvard's 2004 Commencement speaker at the Afternoon Exercises on June 10.
		Annan is the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations and the first to be elected from the ranks of UN staff.
		Previous Commencement speakers include former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan; former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Mary Robinson, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights and former president of the Republic of Ireland; and Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/04.15/01-speaker.html (814 words)

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