Homeland Security’s Janet Napolitano To Headline Emory Graduation
Decatur Metro | January 19, 2011From the Emory Wheel…
United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will address graduating seniors at Emory’s 166th Commencement ceremony on May 9.
…Napolitano was not on the final list that the Commencement Speaker Advisory Committee — which includes both students and administrators and is responsible for suggesting potential speakers — submitted to University President James W. Wagner last spring, but was among those initially considered.
…Napolitano will address an expected audience of more than 14,000, including approximately 3,600 graduating seniors. She is the first female speaker to address the graduating class since Marian Wright Edelman, an activist for children’s rights, delivered the keynote in 2006. Previous Commencement speakers have also included California Gov. and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) in 2010, former President of Mexico Vicente Fox in 2009 and Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus in 2008.
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I hope she has the rest of Concrete Blonde with her.
Jeez – was Andy Dick not available?
Commencement? Or recruitment? I wonder if the students, faculty and parents will be required to remove their shoes to attend.
Are We Safer?
Washington Post’s Dana Priest reports on the sprawling post-9/11 terrorism-industrial complex — and its growing reach into the lives of ordinary Americans.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/are-we-safer/
I have to be there because I work there, but I’m not a fan.
Although, I’ll be interested to see/hear the audience reaction, seeing as how many of them will have had to come through airport security to attend…