Eye on the Street

22 thoughts on “Eye on the Street”

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2. As unpleasant an experience as I’ve ever had (despite the otherwise celebratory nature) was sitting in the steamy sun in a “hat and cape” in a folding chair. This should be done with couches, in an air conditioned room, preferably with with cocktails.

   1. And what were they thinking when they came up with the idea of having graduation on Monday morning?

      1. Emory always has graduation the Monday after Mother’s Day. no idea why but it’s been happening that way for 20+ years at least.

         1. Maybe it’s the best Mother’s Day present ever–that your child (and your finances) made it through college!

4. Good ol’ Emory. Of all the schools I’ve graduated from, I can say without a doubt that Emory was definitely one of them.

6. My favorite part of graduations is the speakers that are they choose. For one of my graduations, the speaker was a totally left-wing benefactor and my poor conservative parents had to sit through his spiel and wonder what the heck it had to do with their daughter graduating.

   1. That’s funny. My husband tells me that at his graduation he listened to a fine law-and-order speech from then sitting veep, Spiro T. Agnew.

      1. Oh, he wins!

      2. Ha. Spiro Agnew lecturing on law and order. What a lesson for those grads. I wonder what he had to say about the laws against lying under oath, cheating on taxes, extortion, bribery and conspiracy?

         1. that politicians should be exempt?

      3. Mine was Ted Turner. You could feel the sleaze emanating off him all the way to the back. And Jane was in the audience, which just made things even more vomit-inducing.

         1. Just curious: what about Ted Turner is sleazy? Never heard anything particularly scandalous about him.

            1. Have you read Jane’s book?

               1. No, but if we’re talking about adultery, that’s about as common as a cold among rich and powerful men.

                  1. Still tacky! 🙂

                  2. Yep.

         2. Oh, please–amateur! I once found myself standing a scant yard away from Jerry Falwell in the parking lot of a Japanese steakhouse in Lynchburg Virginia, and managed not to projectile vomit.

   2. Neil Armstrong at my sister’s graduation. It was awesome. We were over the moon about it!

8. the one thing i got right during my years getting universitated was not attending the graduations.

10. It was a great ceremony, although long. John Lewis gave a great, inspiring and short speech. So glad my boy has graduated along with 4000 of his classmates.

    1. Congrats to you and your boy! And glad that you got a good speaker, not just someone with a big name or big wallet, but no speaking talent. DHS gets Jason Carter this year who will hopefully fall in the category of good speaker.

12. there aren’t too many emory threads that appear so i will put in a random note here. for anyone connected in some way to emory, the locally written book “waking up blind” is a fantastic read about local governance and arrogance. for anyone who has read the emory wheel over the last two years and paid attention to departmental closings (among other things), its clear there are major structural issues there.

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