homeschoolmom Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 My commencement speaker spoke about three great ceremonial events in our adult lives: college graduation (which I was sitting at at the time) wedding (I was already married) funeral... ( ) Other than that, I have no idea what he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I don't remember anything about my commencement speaker. I'd had maybe 2 hours of sleep because I'd gone to the midnight showing of [i]The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King[/i] the night before (I graduated in December). And then I was rather giddy at seeing DH before going in (we weren't dating yet at that point). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kujo Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 [quote name='SaintOlaf' post='1871975' date='May 20 2009, 05:35 PM']I admire the attempts to make such a statement for life, but this quote sums it up the best, in my opinion.[/quote] Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 (edited) [quote name='SaintOlaf' post='1871975' date='May 20 2009, 02:35 PM'][quote]Commencement, however, is not the appropriate forum for a constructive conversation on a matter that is so important. Rather, Commencement is a time to celebrate the academic achievements of our students.[/quote] I admire the attempts to make such a statement for life, but this quote sums it up the best, in my opinion. [/quote] I agree. It is sad when the administration of a school chooses a speaker who causes scandal. Edited May 21, 2009 by Apotheoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithLuin Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 The administration of [i]this[/i] school [u]didn't[/u] choose a scandalous speaker! They invited someone from CRS to give the Commencement speech. I have to imagine that this is a result of ND choosing Obama - students of this school wanting to say, hey, I don't know about them, but [i]we're[/i] pro-life...and other students saying 'no we're not' so that the administration said, you know what, graduation is not the forum to discuss this in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 [quote name='MithLuin' post='1872733' date='May 21 2009, 02:34 PM']The administration of [i]this[/i] school [u]didn't[/u] choose a scandalous speaker! They invited someone from CRS to give the Commencement speech.[/quote] Thank you for pointing this out. lol I was wondering why people were talking about the school choosing a scandalous speaker when that isn't the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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