Yet Another Liberal as Cornell’s Convocation Speaker

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Yet Another Liberal as Cornell’s Convocation Speaker

April 19, 2008 by sonofmaron

Maya Angelou has been chosen to be this year’s convocation speaker at Cornell. Angelou has also been active in the Democratic primaries and has recently been joined and praised by Jeremiah Wright at her 80th birthday event.

Of course, it gets even worse when you put things in context. Last year, the speaker was Soledad O’Brien. Who? Exactly. The year before was Martin Luther King III, in a much politicized (left-wing) and mediocre speech. Before that, in order, was Wesley Clark (Dem), Bill Clinton (worse Dem), James Carville (aahhh), Danny Glover (supporter of Hugo Chavez), Janet Reno (nuff said), Senator Chuck Schumer, etc etc…

I assume the other Ivies have suffered at least as much?

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2 Responses to “Yet Another Liberal as Cornell’s Convocation Speaker”

on April 20, 2008 at 11:26 pm1 I know why the caged wingnut whines

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on April 21, 2008 at 8:53 am2 Luis Martinez

It seems that the choices for speakers at Ivy schools reflect the overriding politics of the faculty and most of the students at a given school. While it would be great to have equality and balance in such a significant area as graduation speakers, this won’t be the case if politics take such a huge role in the decision-making processes in regards to the selection of said speakers.