welcome! jeremy freese is a professor in sociology at northwestern university. he finds blogging to be a good diversion from insomnia and a far better use of time than television.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
nelson mandela? colin powell? jon stewart? OR... should we go all-out and try to get john elway???
A friend of mine at Stanford sent me the following list of their student body's eleven finalists for who to recommend as commencement speaker:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bono
Larry Paige/Sergey Brin (Google)
John Elway
Colin Powell
Conan O'Brien
Sally Ride
Jon Stewart
Ted Koppel
Nelson Mandela
Uh, you do realize how big John Elway is to Stanford athletics, right?
ReplyDeleteJust don't ask him about The Play.
Yes, I know this. Still, I think Mandela has made modest social contributions as well.
ReplyDeleteWhat, no Condi Rice?
ReplyDeleteHuey Newton has my vote
ReplyDeleteWhat about Huey Lewis
ReplyDelete- the SOX - hey, any team that can break an 86 year old curse ought to be able to give a few tips to college graduates
ReplyDeleteHuey Lewis is actually, as it turns out, the current incarnation of the Buddha, and may be coming to give a talk to the Madison Sociology department.
ReplyDeleteI'm thrilled just to see that student know who Sally Ride IS. The space program doesn't get any respect anymore, I tell 'ya.
ReplyDeleteI just saw yesterday that Huey Lewis got a perfect 800 on his math SAT.
ReplyDeleteThe Buddha knows all maths.
ReplyDeleteDoes Bo know all maths?
ReplyDeletethe smith twins - both scored perfect SAT scores - dillon is thumbing his nose at Sociology and going into engineering
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