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Julia Kite emails us with the following tip:
“The Journalism School’s graduation speaker will be Ben Bradlee…yes, THE Ben Bradlee who was editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate Scandal and one of three people who knew the identity of Deep Throat, à la All the President’s Men.”
According to a recent Gawker post, J-School Dean of Students Sree Sreenivasan e-mailed students with the news yesterday (in which he, interestingly enough, sourced Wikipedia for Bradlee’s bio — hey, even professional journalists refer to it every now and then).
For those still upset about their own Class Day speakers, know that there may still be hope for graduate school.
– MIP
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@un-again “prestige”, even. Bwog needs an edit-comment feature.
Now that I think of it didn’t harvard also have that dude that played Borat and I think some guy from Family Guy? Personally those guys would have made me cringe. But it still wouldn’t have me declare my entire undergraduate experience crap and my school second rate.
@Will S. Bradlee wrote the best book about JFK ever. No question.
@blue love my bad memories?
@COME NOW PULL YOURSELVES TOGETHER!!!
You’re leaving. We’ll miss you. We know that it hurts to know that Columbia will continue without you. But don’t stoop to denigrating Alma Mater just because you’re a little bit intimidated by the coming changes to your life.
You’ll always have your memories of Columbia. Good and bad, they’re a part of you now. Love them, love Columbia, and love yourself.
Second rate my ass.
@True, but I know I’d hate it if I had some tool as my class day speaker. For almost $45k a year, we deserve better
@futurecrimson “You’ll always have your memories of Columbia.”
Yes, and they’ll all look like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Fedlogo.jpg
@that graphic needs to be redone by the fed using bollinger and manhattanville. make it done chas.
@agreed choosing matthew fox as our graduation speaker was humiliating and debilitating to our egos. SECOND RATE SCHOOOOOOL.
@Dude looks Dude looks drunk–may make for an entertaining speech
@futurecrimson “there may still be hope for graduate school”
thank god I’m going to Harvard for graduate school. Bill Gates at commencement and Bill Clinton at Class day for Harvard College? Seriously Columbia, it’s not even a contest anymore. we’re second rate. No wonder Barack Obama is ashamed to admit he went here.
@huzzah this future crimson agrees, and is delighted to see red as his “human verification” color.
I know where my donations are going…
@unbelievable You’re pathetic. You do know that Harvard has had speakers like Conan O’Brian? Penn has had Jodie Foster? Occasionally there will be an entertainer or star that is not OMGSOPRESTIGIOUS. That something like what schmuck speaks at class day is that much of a blow to your ego is sad. Yeah, you do belong at Harvard, you should have gone there undergrad too. Entitled pristige sluts like you make Columbia students look bad.
@von what? conan rules
@futurecrimson Harvard’s actors and entertainers outclass Matthew Fox by miles. Conan, Sascha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, and Seth MacFarlane? Don’t even try to compare them to Fox. And Jody Foster has won 2 academy awards for best actress. Matthew Fox was nominated for a Golden Globe. But have you seen any of his interviews? he’s an ass.
@the Man Will Ferrell went to USC