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It’s Matthew Fox, of Lost fame. We hope this is a joke. (Though some of you commenters in the other thread seemed prescient…)
A genuine teevee celebrity! Chris Szabla reports:
“The general mood among seniors: either appalled, or wondering if Quigley and Chait were playing an extended joke. Even the video montage of headshots from the likes of Party of Five failed to quell rumors this was some kind of gag.”
UPDATE 7:00PM: Spec has a full story up and running, complete with delicious reactions.
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@gisele wow.you guys are unbelievable! AhAh.I don’t even understand what are you talking about since the best we could have as speaker here is some 100 years old scientist.WOW.so cool.You’ll have an actor there.just enjoy his speech.if you don’t know or like him,who the hell cares?he’s a good looking man,just stare at him and get over yourself.jeez…
@Ashley I’m a huge LOST fan so I’m very excited to see Matthew Fox. I LOVE him, he’s so good on LOST.
@hotmail? makes it obvious you are not a columbia student.
@your face What the fuck do you know about statistics you dumbass Kim W? I’m columbia, bitch — statistically, i’m going to run shit and make more money and fuck more bitches than this loser. eat my ass matt fox
@Kim W What a bunch of judgemental little pricks! Who are any of you to sit in judgement of someone’s accomplishments in life? Statistically, half of you will end up not even working in your degree field, so get a grip you high and mighty little whiners!
@what a tool do you even go to this school?
@ridiculous how does working or not working in one’s degree field have anything to do with this debate? gee, so there’s a 50% i won’t become a history professor, therefore i don’t have a right to express disapproval over who was chosen to represent my class at class day. ridiculous argument.
@Dave Chait ... brought us free new york times
@Watson House The video that started it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI16tDRFS64
@what an awful video.
@eureka! Václav Havel should give the class day speech. Columbia could give him an honorary degree. Problem solved.
@wow wow people get off your high horses. two reflections
1) y’all clearly think columbia is too amazing for matthew fox to be the speaker. hm did it ever occur to you that maybe no one else wants to speak? maybe no one else wants to pander to the sissies. maybe no one else wants to be embarassed like McCain or the minutemen? mull that over
2)dave chait is the best class president cc has seen. unlike other offices he doesnt do it all just for the “glory” of being on ccsc, he actually cares about the students and about columbia.
go study for your midterms, go to the gym, go spend this energy on issues that desrve the sort of fire and rage that has been posted. who the hell cares who the speaker is in the bigger scheme of things? put things into perspective.
@i agree You people are an embarassment to columbia. I am ashamed to go to school with individuals that find greater important in protesting the class day speaker because they do not find him to be up to par with their pretentious expectations than matters of greater importance. Name another potential speaker– anyone would be protested, this is the nature of the school. And that is not a compliment.
Get over the legacy of 1968, everything that happens that doesn’t work your way does not necessitate crying to your parents and starting facebook groups.
@wow wow people get off your high horses. two reflections:
1) he might get to be a big, A-list celebrity some day and use his notoreity for something useful…like UN UNICEF Ambassador Angelina Jolie or speak out against Darfur and whatnot. in addition, WE MIGHT ALL GET AUTOGRAPHED HEADSHOTS. OMG.
2) Fox News hates us. Hannity and Colmes, Bill O’Reilly, Rupert Murdoch. Can’t you see that Quigley (HE IS THE COMMITTEE) struck a deal so that the second-rate news outlet won’t target us anymore?! I can read the headlines now: “FOX NEWS: FOX TO SPEAK AT COLUMBIA”
GOING TO BE THE BEST GRADUATION EVER.
@haha you can’t honestly believe that NO ONE else could/wanted to speak at class day except for matthew fox, even after the minutemen controversy. what bullshit.
and i’ll admit that i did vote for chait all 4 years, because i think he’s done (up til now) a good job. however, THIS decision is completely baffling to me. why wasn’t the class of 2007 consulted in this, at any stage of the process? why couldn’t we vote on our own speaker? at least then we could blame ourselves.
@duh u make it seem as if u had all these choices of people JUST waiting and HOPING to speak at your bloody class day, and that your class would vote on one of these lucky lucky potential speakers. DUH there was probably not a lot of people wishing and waiting and hoping to be ur speaker.
CC 2007 get over yourselves.
@you probably go to princeton. go fuck yourself princeton. i’m glad i peed on your eating club.
@wow there you go again. thinking that someone from princeton would take the time to peruse your school’s blog? ha! hilarious!
@OMG GAWKERRUSH
@your mom 140 and 142 (assuming they’re not the same person who keeps lurking around this blog) don’t go to this school. stay out of columbia’s business, you pretentious fuck.
@nonono what’s fair is fair. chait has been a good class president the past four years. sadly, this extremely serious mis-step will ruin his legacy as the best class president in years.
@at least we’re agreed this will destroy whatever reputation he ever had. sorry, david. maybe there’s still time to act?
@EXAMPLE Lerner Pubs run themselves, you know
@oh wow you mean he maintained an institution previous class councils ran? man, what an asset to the school. and a high school prom rehash? bravo. no wonder we’re stuck with matthew fox.
@uhh were you not at the winter gala last week?
@i guess i’m glad i didn’t go that dean quigley thing today when he made the announcement. i probably would’ve thrown something at david chait’s head.
what a horrible mistake.
@get over yourself 121. dave chait has done more for columbia– more for our class– than anyone else these past 4 years.
@umm want to give some examples?
@disaproval People to write to:
David Chait: ddc2106@columbia.edu
Dean Quigley: aeq1@columbia.edu
PrezBo: bollinger@columbia.edu
Sample Letter #1:
Dean Quigley,
I am writing to express my strong opposition to Matthew Fox as the CC Class Day Speaker. I do not want a performance by a c-list celebrity whose notoriety is based on a couple of bad TV shows to define my class day. I am honestly unable to comprehend how he was selected and I am embarrassed to inform my friends and family of the University’s choice.
I am sure that since the choice has already been announced, it is “final and irreversible”. Well, my response is also final and irreversible. I will not be giving to the Senior fund unless he is
replaced and this will certainly affect my willingness to contribute to the University in the future.
I strongly urge you to find a replacement for Matthew Fox.
Best,
(you)
2nd Sample Letter
LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!1111 MATTHEW FOX?!?!?!?! HE SUXX, U SUK. NO FOX!!!!!1111 ANYONE BUT FOX!!!!11111111
Best,
(you)
@Bari This is so repulsive I don’t think it’s real.
@Ted Kennedy is fat.
@Bonus Can Bwog just have its own counter-graduation? Then we can invite anybody we want.
@I got it Why doesn’t Chait just speak? He’s gotta be better than Fox. Just hand him his diploma before he does so, so the rules are satisfied — wham bam thank you ma’am!
@julia is right on here!
@Julia you suck!
@idiot if you want to insult on bwog, at least do so inventively
@Julia K. That’s nice. Care to sign your name?
@Julia Is not my name but instead the SUBJECT OF MY POST! (!)
I agree with her comment and I invite you to comment on whether you like her or what she has said!
BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF MS KITE TO HERE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT HER SO THAT SHE CAN IMPROVE HER LIFE BASED UPON YOUR SUGGESTIONS
@Borat and make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan, yes.
@i never thought it would get this bad. this isn’t about being pretentious, it’s about not being COMPLETELY embarrassed when the world finds out we asked some jagoff-nobody, an angry, violent former football player (who, though he was a senior at the game that ended the losing streak, must have contributed to that streak before his senior year) from columbia’s darkest decade (though i wouldn’t want to insult ghostbusters) to speak at graduation day. Bill Clinton is speaking at Knox College, and I would trade our speaker for Paul Reubens (as Pee-Wee) in a heartbeat. the fuck?
@Missing the point The point is not how important our college graduation is to our lives. The point is that thousands of us will be forced to sit through a crappy speech.
@Julia K. In 50 years, people will still be reading, performing, and debating Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.” Robert Kraft’s donations will still be benefitting countless people. I doubt “Lost” is going to leave even a fraction of that kind of impact on the world.
Shame on the people involved in choosing the Class Day speaker. This is one of the most distinguished universities in America, and we can’t find someone who’s left more of a legacy? What about the scientists, the statesmen (and women), the visionaries? Instead, we get a TV actor who half the people in the room didn’t recognize. It’s sad that people about to graduate from Columbia couldn’t make a better choice.
@julia for once, I agree with you.
@all hail the kite word, julia, word
@Sprinkles Hear that?
That’s the sound of the rest of the Ivy League laughing their asses off at us.
Pathetic.
@Eric Cartman This is hella lame.
@oh man Y’all need to chill out. No one remembers their college graduation. At least, no one who would be worth knowing. Relax and just enjoy the simple pleasure of going to such a rich and insane school. It doesn’t mean anything, your existence and essence are preserved in the murky balm of self-congratulatory diploma/career -seeking masturbation. Go smoke a J, eat some JJ’s, and go gossip about rumors that Bill O’Reilly and Avi Zenilman will both be on Lost Season Four. Wankers…
@Lost I think that it’s all in hurley’s head?
@no way It some Dharma Initiatve experiment.
@so is Matt Fox
@Desmond Jack/Kate 4evah!
Also, I hope he tells us the secret of the island(s).
@island secret that would at least garner media attention beyond the condescension of HYP’s student dailies…
@so is Dean Colombo
@Dean Quigley is sexy.
@second that This is going to be a great Class Day.
@What? You guys are right. We should not have a class day speaker who is a succesful young alumnus with a strong connection to school who has done something with his life other than be a politician. There is more in life than politicians, bankers, and consultants.
@wow has anyone suggested a banker or consultant? this guy is a serious tool. he was a football recruit, frat boy, and actor on dumb tv shows and movies. only vanity pulled him away from his wall street job offer.
@rebellion i don’t remember my high school graduation.
oh shit. that’s cause i was sloshed and didn’t bother going.
guess what i’ll be doing on 5/15?
@congrats some of you will be drunk and will have missed class day anyway. for you – congratulations! you will be the next matthew foxes of the world.
@Wow A television star would be fine. Matthew Fox is hardly a star. Totally irrelevant choice.
@petition? People are taking this way too fucking seriously. It’s just class day, not an event that actually matters, like your wedding or the night you lost your virginity.
Nobody will give a shit in about a week. Smoke some weed and chill out, people.
@dude the night you lost your virginity is supposed to matter?
@idiot you remeber your college graduation for the rest of your life. and now those memories will include…matthew fox.
@okay yea, i think you need to grow up. Thats incredibly frivolous. I should value the night I lost my virginity more than the day I graduate from college? Are you serious?
Come back when you’re not high.
@Wait Really? I’m COMPLETELY inclined to disagree with you. Graduating college is just a formality.
Hell, it doesn’t even have to be your virginity. Sex *whenever* trumps college graduation. Drunk, unconscious, even when it’s not that fun — way the fuck better than graduating.
Maybe you’re doing it wrong!
This sounds mean! But I’m basically serious!
@Lost fan I love Lost (yeah, yeah, Season 1 > S2 and 3 combined), but still, HAHA at the ’07ers.
@people people, contact your parents, tell them to call and e-mail in.
Write an e-mail to bollinger, to Chait, to whoever saying you will never give a penny as an alumni if this stands.
Yea, actually, someone figure out who should be harassed about this.
@this is an excellent plan. Everyone should write an e-mail and send it to Chait, Quigley and Bollinger.
@huzzah flood their inboxes! aux arms (well, hands, but you get the point)
@... methinks some idiot in columbia pr believes this will get the school on national tv, like foster did with penn last year. though to be fair, i have no idea who this dude is outside of what’s been posted. and he sounds like a dud. a jock dud too.
unfortunately for columbia pr, the only press on the horizon will come from the other elite schools laughing at us over the next few weeks.
@lame this is pathetic. we definately could get mark rudd though. and even he would be better than this douche.
@senior hey senior fund people,
I have still not contributed even a penny to your attempt to make our school look better on the us news list. it looks like it would have been in futility anyway, this is destined to make us drop in the peer rating category. but surely you’re all affiliated with ccsc, and have some influence in this class day matter. a large contribution to the fund is waiting to say “I knew they could do better”…
@lame Why not a scientist? Why not an academic? Why on earth a television star? I agree with many posters above – I’m embarrassed to tell my parents about the speaker.
@Friend I blame Felipe Tarud.
@... columbia – for whatever the reason (bwog, help?) – chooses not to invite a university commencement speaker. so instead we get to hear prezbo opine on the first amendment.
@... seeing manhattanville on the horizon and destined to make an impact on those empty envelopes that await our ’07 graduates at their permanent addresses, a columbia grad in new york city government would be very relevant.
and a far better choice than this joke.
@hey why not nominate a beloved professor? i would love to hear a cool prof who knows the college, has students in the audience, knows how to give a good speech and crack a few jokes or something, then they could go all out trying to get a really big name, CU-related or not, for university commencement. sure, it’d be great to have an awesome grad every year, but Fox seems like not a top choice, and if we get however far down the list to people of his level, why not get someone on our world-class faculty to go be world-class?
@Seriously? Truly shameful. This is one of the most important things that the class council does all year. A New York city councilman would have been more relevant.
@Okay here's the plan Someone (not me, I have midterms) needs to go ahead and make a website, get a petition going, and get parents to call in en mass. This is an embarassment. I am simply shocked. This is fucking awful. Disgusting. Alternatives, after spending 2 minuts on wikipedia:
David Patterson
George Stephanopoulos
Jerry Fodor
Jim McGreevey
Nadler
James Rubin
Joel Klein
Paul Starr
Fucking David Horrowitz
FUCKING Mark Rudd
FUCKING ANYONE ELSE OTHER THAN A FUCKING C LIST ACTOR.
I’d take Scooter Libby over Matthew Fox.
@plan redux I have to go study right now, but i am relying on the collective power of bwog to come up with a domain name for an anti-fox website. anyonebutfox.com is available… but thats not creative. Someone come up with a good domain name and I’ll buy it. Someone else volunteer to design it b/c I have no idea how to do websites.
We’ll need a forum on there, a petition, and a couple of pages too explain why Fox disgusts us.
I will check back in 60 minutes… bwog I am relying on you.
@hmmm Outfoxed07.com?
@Jim McGreevey? You’re an idiot. McGreevey was a corrupt politician who was funneling funds for his personal use and doing all sorts of illegal and shady shit – he about to get caught and drummed out of office when he convienantly came out of the closet to distract the press from the real issues of his office. Unfortunately, it worked. He’s not a pioneer for gay rights – he’s a sleazy, corrupt scumbag who actually set gay rights back a few years with his little stunt. Do your homework. If you think McGreevey of all people would be a better choice, then you’re a jackass.
@From SEAS heh. heh heh heh. Ha ha ha. HO HO HO. Haaaaa HAH HAH HAH HAH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@... well, what do you know — another fine example of red tape farking up a columbia event.
@umm red tape? nah. this is one thing you can’t blame the bureaucracy for. plenty of great speakers come here every week, despite them. this should not have been an exception.
@lost fan lost is wonderful. it has not gone down. it makes Wednesday live-able. but matthew fox is horrible.
@What were the other what were the other names of the list? David Chait has been a solid class president for four years, so I find it very hard to imagine (I hope) that he would suddenly be plagued by some sort of spell of stupidity.
@ahem list of people…many are still alive. all are alumni of columbia college, specifically. matthew fox is one of the least impressive names on this list. even emmanual ax playing piano would have rocked him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Columbia_College_people
looking at the actors alone…even julia stiles would have been a more appropriate choice. or dan futterman. not to mention van peebles, george segal, or ben stein!
@you are not a true LOST fan if you think the show has gone downhill as of late. no conflict there.
@am i lost hallucinating, or did all the bitchy anti-fox comments after 50 just get voted off the island?
@keb At least it’s not some politician who is just going to instigate huge fights and moaning. Fox might end up being a really good speaker. An “Al Gore” or “Bill Clinton” would just end up pissing off some portion of the crowd and create reason for another stupid arguement on campus, whereas we can all agree that LOST has gone seriously downhill as of late.
@agreed this will be awesome for class unity, as we collectively storm the stage in disgust. far better than matthew fox breaking the endless columbia football losing streak (note to quigley: finally winning a football game is not an achievement).
@COME ON. matt fox is one of the most successful YOUNG columbia grads in the arts and entertainment industry. this holier than thou attitude of some columbia students is bs…
@FOX JUSTIFICATION FACE IT
He’s popular enough. And considering the 10yr turnover rate for these speakers, it’s now or never.
Don’t use your ignorance of television culture to say you’ve never heard of this guy. He’s done more than just Lost, also.
The supply of Al Gores or Bill Clintons isn’t unlimited. At worst, we got a little bit unlucky, but it’s not the end of the world. I, for one, intend on getting a poster autographed at least.
@i was waiting... …for some jackass to say it’s not that bad. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!? just face it, it’s disappointing for Columbia College to get someone who is a whimper of a blip on the ‘television culture’ radar. i can’t take it, the committee completely failed, don’t justify anything.
@dead to me “i can’t take it, the committee completely failed, don’t justify anything.”
Let’s not put blame on the committee. They didn’t do anything that we shouldn’t have expected. I lost faith in David Chait a long time ago. If there was one thing I though I could rely on my class president to do, it was be honest and transparent. But then his facebook profile became inaccessible. When attractive sorority girls do it to prevent stalking, fine. But they’re not my class president. He is, and the secrecy makes me cry. The purple ink on my index finger is a lie.
@babyblues what kind of bullshit decision is this? who the fuck approved this shit. but whatever, I am gladly skipping his speech, saves me a whole day of wearing babyblue.
@STUPID RULES! We should nix the rule making it only alumni or people connected to the school that can speak. Seriously, that’s limiting.
@yes and no They should move the speaker to the university-wide day that way we have our pick from SEAS and Barnard. Whatever complaints people have about Barnard it is undeniable that its graduations – before and after 1985 or is it 1986 – have achieved bigger and better things than their female counterparts at the college.
But as another poster said. Why not Paul Auster? He posed on the cover of Columbia today, so his fighting with the school is presumably over? Obama hates columbia, granted. But what about Justice Baader-Ginsberg?
@umm bader-ginsberg went to the law school, which is so separate from the rest of the university it doesn’t even attend commencement, I believe. anyway she only even went there as a transfer to be closer to her husband or something.
the point isn’t that there aren’t better people available. the point is that we’ve all been the victims of some seriously poor taste among the selectors…
@let's play.. …choose the more bland and generalized statement!
“It doesn’t get much better than being a member of the Columbia College class of 2007,” Quigley said. “There aren’t many groups with your set of talents and abilities. … For all of us, it’s just been great to have you around here.”
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“Football taught me a lot about life,” Fox was quoted as saying in an official University press release. “Playing at Columbia University, I felt I was part of the solution. Learning to get up and move on even in the face of adversity. My experiences at Columbia have taught me to believe in myself when other people don’t and persevere no matter the challenge”
@hmm even just hearing quiggles himself the whole time would be better.
@wikipedia “Fox played football for the Deerfield team, which earned him an invitation to Columbia University.”
he was possibly not even acadeically qualified to be here. sad.
@... when will it be on the CU homepage under “Columbia News?”
@seriously how can they possibly add this in with al gore and such? I mean, shit, looking at the gore-sachs thing makes me realize there are more interesting people within the university already.
I nominate: richard bulliet. DRAFT BULLIET NOW!
@consultation? I seem to remember the senior class was at least consulted in previous years? were we? in some e-mail i deleted?
@senior we at least deserve a serious, detailed explanation from chait & co. beyond a petty quote in spec.
@STOP BEING SO ANGRY. GET A SENSUAL MESSAGE AND RELAX.
@MAYBE YOUR MESSAGE WOULD BE MORE SENSUAL IF YOU TYPED IT WITHOUT THE CAPS LOCK!
@DISGUSTING THIS IS A THOROUGHLY DISGUSTING DECISION AND AN INSULT TO THE SENIOR CLASS. AT LEAST THE MCCAIN DECISION, HOWEVER CONTENTIOUS, LEAD TO SOME SORT OF LEGITIMATE CONTROVERSY RELATED TO POLITICS. BUT A TALENTLESS ACTOR FROM A TV SHOW? YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME. THIS IS A LAME PIECE OF MOTHERFUCKING BULLSHIT.
@... This event will single-handedly bring Columbia’s US News and World Report ranking down by at least five spots.
@ugh even robert kraft was at least a real contributor to columbia. this needs protesting, if anything. I mean, I’d almost rather have jim gilchrist…at least it would get media.
my parents will be so appalled to see this after shelling out 40k a year for my presumably top quality education. this screams: look at the laughable future you bought your children!
@agreed here’s the e-mail I sent to my parents:
subject: bad news
body:
http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/03/05/News/Matthew.Fox.Announced.As.Cc.Class.Day.Speaker-2758176.shtml
you have to sit through a speech by this schmuck, who I’ve never heard of, to watch me walk across the stage and get a diploma. I’m sorry. I promise the tuition is worth it–they’re skimping here to help provide me with more legitimate opportunities. Really.
Love,
Commenter
@Felipe Tarud should be class day speaker.
@I heard Felipe Tarud wanted $14,000 and a hotel room with a balcony.
@get over it I think Fox is a great choice… He’s young, so he’s not so removed from the Columbia experience, and he should be entertaining since he makes his money as an entertainer. I personally think this is a lot better than some politician or some CEO.
@Matthew Fox Ya’ll some haters.
@The video was hilarious.
@Oh god Where is the ISO? Something needs to be protested!
@AWFUL Is this the best that they could muster? Why not Paul Auster?
@seriously?! You want the emotional, artsy Jew before the steak and potatoes, football-playing hunk of carnal desire who got to star within only feet of Neve Campbell? THE Neve Campbell!!!
@Yes. This is EXCELLENT.
@CC06 I can’t decide if this is better or worse than McCain … but trust me, protesting your Class Day speaker is a lot of fun. Orange buttons really stand out against the blue gowns.
@really? does choosing a good-looking prick seem a little more princeton than columbia? i thought at least we were supposed to be artsy and interesting…
@Aaah, but see It is superifically artsy and interesting. Either this reflects the 15-person committee that chooses speakers (David Chait und so weiter), or it reflects the fact that all the actually interesting (or at least more notable and famous) simply turned down the offer. I’m not sure which option is more depressing.
@LUCY SNOWE at least he’s hot
@watcher Spec’s on it:
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2007/03/05/News/Matthew.Fox.Announced.As.Cc.Class.Day.Speaker-2758176.shtml
@Who? What about those of us who have never watched Lost and have never heard of this guy?
@wow “Immediately after Quigley made the announcement, many could be heard muttering about the identity of the alumnus, a confusion that only partially subsided after Quigley played a slideshow of Fox’s photos over the a rendition of The Final Countdown.”
that sounds totally hilarious. bummer, though.
@boo. can we protest the class speaker? can we say, we would rather have silence than captain jack? or doctor jack or whateverthehell? do we realize that he would be better introduced as jack than as matthew? does this UPSET US?
@fwiw this is worse than jodie foster at penn.
@this is such bullshit. the guy was a male model and then happened to land a role on party of five — can we get someone who has actually done something good for the world rather than a guy who just happens to look good in tight shirts? i didn’t realize CC was supposed to prepare us to be on a cheesy show.
@wow most columbians are entitled to the thrill and excitement of 3 housing lottery results and 1 class day speaker…i went 0/4.
@who cares From Wikipedia:
Regarding his relationship with his wife and the longevity of their marriage, Fox said that his wife understood that there existed within him forces that were “brutal”, “base”, and “violent”. “Margherita knows it exists within me,” Fox stated, “And she’s very attracted to it.”
I hope he talks about his kinky sex life on class day.
@Brian DePalma I directed “Scarface.” I should get to speak.
@... speech preview!
In addition to meeting his future wife, while at Columbia, Fox played in the 16-13 victory over Princeton in 1988 that broke Columbia’s record 44 game losing streak. Regarding what it felt like to finally win, Fox stated, “I had a 40-yard touchdown that was called back. It was a rainy day and the sidelines were muddy, and I got chucked coming off the line and apparently went out-of-bounds. I thought I scored, but it was called back. But more than anything, I remember the immense relief and euphoria that win brought. We had gotten the crap knocked out of us for a long time. Every week we lost, we were news. Then the goal posts came down, and the campus partied for two days. It was a great day.”
@... was gideon yago unavailable?
@hmm What a ridiculous disappointment. If the class council had to choose a no-name speaker, they at least could have brainstormed creatively enough to choose someone truly accomplished in their field. There must be ONE brilliant CC alum SOMEWHERE…
@in the minority i’m excited. it’s validating for seniors that want to go into entertainment to know that it’s possible to be successful at it, even at the price of disdain from other alums.
@i agree damn, all y’all Fox haters are bumming me out. i’m so disappointed that i’m graduating next year instead of this. how easy is class day to sneak into?
@very easy you don’t need tickets for class day only for commencement…
@"entertainment" No one is poo-pooing on entertainment. It’s B-list and a particular sort of entertainment (the lame kind) that they’re taking issue with. Really, entertainment is dandy, but one would hope it would be either someone really funny, or someone who was famous or pimp enough that he could take a shit in our face and still be applauded (think Kusher or DePalama). If it’s just a straightforward actor, it would be nice if the speaker could be powerful and captivating (think Dennehy).
@Pro fox KushNer spoke within the last 10 years, which disqualifies him from speaking.
DePalma… Well I don’t really know why he couldn’t speak, but maybe he didn’t want to? And would you really enjoy a speaker who doesn’t want to be there?
And Dennehy spoke before V-Show last year, and he wasn’t all that captivating.
@Of course …he wasn’t captivating. He should be “the speaker” only insofar as he should give a performance as Willy Loman. Preferably, he’ll pound a table at least once.
@alum Dennehy gave a class day speech in the late 1990s (maybe 2000), so he can’t do this year’s.
@... I hope this is a joke. And if not-
ugh…and this is AFTER Lost has gone so downhill, too!
@well he did go here. not like that is justification – just an explanation.
@haha at least he’s a doctor