<p>I say hands down, Wesleyan University :)</p>
<p>Oh yeah baby! Wesleyan brought it home this year.</p>
<p>Honorable mention goes to</p>
<p>Liberty University- Chuck Norris.</p>
<p>BTW- Youtube has some great commencement speeches. There's one by Conan O'brien for Stuyvesant High class of 2006, and Will Ferrell at Harvard... both absolutely hilarious and surprisingly thoughtful.</p>
<p>Syracuse - Vanessa Williams(something to keep me awake)</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon - Randy Pausch</p>
<p>Randy Pausch's a true inspiration. I hope it won't be the last speech he ever makes.</p>
<p>Most years I, being a major Harry Potter fan, would have given it to Harvard with JK Rowling hands down. But this year, I've got to agree that we go the best speaker, maybe because I'm a little biased (:P), but mostly because Barack Obama is SO important THIS year in particular. It was also pretty awesome that Jamaica Kincaid also spoke at the same commencement (she was getting an honorary degree).</p>
<p>JHU with Bill Nye is also really cool!</p>
<p>Stanford has Oprah this year, I believe, and that's pretty awesome.</p>
<p>Furman University.</p>
<p>oh, dearie. . . only Anhur's Hand can save CC. . .</p>
<p>Syracuse had Vanessa Williams, as in, Miss America? I'm sorry but what does she have to do with anything?</p>
<p>Bill Nye the Science guy-BILL!BILL!BILL!BILL!BILL!BILL! haha that would be awesome considering I spent so much of my elementary and junior high years (and a few times, sadly, high school years) watching his show when my teachers were hungover and used it as a filler lesson.</p>
<p>I would have to seriously second Barack Obama, I mean what with how significant this PRIMARY, let alone the ELECTION will be. It'd be a truly memorable event. I don't agree with a lot of what he says, but Obama's one hell of a speaker.</p>
<p>Clarification: Vanessa Williams was the speaker for Syracuse VPA (visual and performing arts---her alma mater).....Bob Woodruff (ABC News) was the commencement speaker for the overall university.....</p>
<p>I do not like Bob Woodruff... he seems full of himself. When his wife was thanking the guy who saved his life (on Oprah), he just kinda rolled his eyes and did not join her in thanking him. It's probably because he has too much pride and doesn't want to think he would be dead if it weren't for him.</p>
<p>Wesleyan Universty definitely had the best....Barack Obama!</p>
<p>Northwestern had him some years ago.</p>
<p>Oh, Yale with Tony Blair is pretty cool.</p>
<p>Idk, better then some random anchor plucked from ABC/NBC/Faux etc.</p>
<p>Nah, Princeton wins out. Princeton's Class Day had Stephen Colbert speaking.</p>
<p>The U.S. Air Force Academy...George W. Bush. If the president speaks at your graduation and then signs autographs and does chest-bumps with the students, it doesn't get any cooler than that.</p>
<p>^^ glad I'm not there--I wouldn't go to commencement if someone like Bush were there.</p>
<p>^^ If you were in the AF you would.</p>
<p>^^ but I wouldn't be, so I wouldn't. ;)</p>