<p>Yeah, the same people who are saying they don’t want to sit through John McCain speak would want to see Lisa Kudrow?? Are you people kidding me? A war hero who spent time in a POW camp, served his country for decades and lost running for president shouldn’t be chosen. You people are seriously lost in some other world.</p>
<p>Maybe you should do a little research yourself before making negative comments about a “controversial” subject. Maybe you don’t know who John McCain is.</p>
<p>[Delaware</a>, Ohio Wesleyan University John McCain Speech | Delaware County Real Estate & Events](<a href=“http://www.delawareohrealestate.com/2010/02/02/senator-john-mccain-to-speak-at-ohio-wesleyan/]Delaware”>http://www.delawareohrealestate.com/2010/02/02/senator-john-mccain-to-speak-at-ohio-wesleyan/)</p>
<p>oh good grief</p>
<p>Obviously someone who hasn’t done anything in life yet but has strong opinions. Good grief back.</p>
<p>@woody…I would be very upset if Pelosi was speaking at my child’s graduation. For our family, it would put a dark cloud over what should be a joyful occasion. You can’t really please everyone, though. Good grief – the Pope himself could be speaking and yet someone would undoubtedly complain that his/her religious rights were being violated!</p>
<p>fummer- maybe everyone would get excited if you just said Woodruff and Bernstein. Your school paper may not get the joke.</p>
<p>Regardless of one’s politics, McCain is a terrible speaker. His delivery is just bad. Maybe he will use a teleprompter to help things along.</p>
<p>Adding Duke, which is sharing with Rice this year. It might be easier if people kept a running list for convenience.</p>
<p>Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)</p>
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Tell me about it! My dad was horrified when my mother and I wanted to ditch my graduation in favor of listening to Desmond Tutu over at UNC last year. ;)</p>
<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College) + Student Speaker (TBA)
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)</p>
<p>I’m thinking Obama could help McCain learn how to function better without the teleprompter.</p>
<p>I am thinking that this is becoming a global world and we better refocus our goals towards something a lot less partisan in our politics. You dont have to agree with someone to see the validity in some of their larger world views and if you really can’t respect someone you don’t agree with, prepare to live in a very polarized society. Seems rather counterintuitive for someone who claims they’re liberal minded unless it only applies to philosophy and not action.</p>
<p>I agree with Modadunn. If, after four years of a liberal arts education, my kid can’t listen respectfully to a speaker he/she disagrees with, I’d ask whether the money I spent on tuition wasn’t wasted.</p>
<p>I thought, when my D said Pelosi is going to be the speaker, that it would be controversial. But, no matter what our political view, we should listen to any side. </p>
<p>I find it hard to believe that listening to a viewpoint different from yours at graduation will ruin the celebratory event. Listen and disagree. Learn something (the other sides view).</p>
<p>But most importantly, celebrate YOUR graduates accomplishment. The ceremony is a few hours. The certificate represents many hours and years of work.</p>
<p>I completely agree. Outside of a truly reprehensible and polarizing figure due to gross prejudice, there is no reason not to listen respectfully to a person of accomplishment, even if we disagree with their thinking. There is even a time and place to listen to the views of the fringe, highly controversial person, but a university graduation isn’t that time nor that place.</p>
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<p>I agree with Modadunn. If, after four years of a liberal arts education, my kid can’t listen respectfully to a speaker he/she disagrees with, I’d ask whether the money I spent on tuition wasn’t wasted.</p>
<p>Can I go to Tulane’s graduation, please? ;)</p>
<p>Time for some people to grow up. Graduation speeches are about accomplished people imparting some of their wisdom, not “just hearing from the political figures that I personally side with.” No reason that both McCain and Pelosi aren’t entirely appropriate figures. They are public servants.</p>
<p>I think protesters need to grow up, too. There’s a time and a place for everything, and this isn’t it.</p>
<p>Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61</p>
<p>Beloit College - David Axelrod</p>
<p>Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)</p>