Wesleyan University, 2003:
Spring Fling Headliner: The Roots
Commencement Speaker: An activist whose name I can't remember--Jody Williams?--who wanted to ban land mines.
Wesleyan University, 2008:
Spring Fling Headliner: The Hold Steady
Commencement Speaker:
Barack Obama And their dorms are nicer, too.
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Totally unfair.
I don't think our Spring Flings or commencement speakers were any better, but we never had forced triples.
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I'm sure you'll hear this from the other Dukies, but our 2003 commencement speaker was Kofi Annan. That is, until he came down with laryngitis and we ended up getting a reading of his prepared comments as well as thank-you speeches from the honorary doctorate recipients.
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i would be totally jealous if i were you, though. hold steady and obama? too much awesome.
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William & Mary 2004: Jon Stewart
Yours is worse, though. Would I love to hear a Barack Obama commencement speech.
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I have no idea at all who our commencement speaker was :/
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