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Ara Shirinian: Students need a voice in commencement speaker decisions

• JasonFruit 12y ago
  Admittedly an awful choice of commencement speaker, but perhaps among the five least important matters in a student's career. It's less important than students having a say in the dining hall's choice of salad dressings, for example; I remember the ranch dressing with perhaps inordinate fondness, but I have no idea who my commencement speaker was.
  • navait 12y ago
    My school picked a student's name out of a hat and chose him as commencement speaker. Not a particularly inspiring speech, but at least not someone bad. I also got a 128 MB flash drive as a gift. This was in 2013.
• jack-r-abbit 12y ago
  Maybe they can use their voice to boo him off the stage.
• ptaffs 12y ago
  Future students have a choice, and a voice; judge an institution by the way it conducts itself. Go somewhere cool.
• sriramk 12y ago
  FWIW, I think Nathan will make a fascinating commencement speaker. He gets a lot of flak (rightfully) for Intellectual Ventures but he has a lot of success in multiple unrelated fields (cooking! archaeology! Microsoft).
• teddyh 12y ago
  > The class of 2015 […] should be given a speaker who can represent the true values of UCLA. Maybe that’s what they did get, and the values of UCLA are not what you thought they were.