[1988] in peace2
Re: commencement speaker recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jdu@MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 16 01:56:07 2002
From: jdu@MIT.EDU
Message-ID: <1034747444.3dacfe34c8cab@webmail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 01:50:44 -0400
To: gsc-president@mit.edu
Cc: mcp2@mit.edu, josh_h@mit.edu, cmvest@mit.edu, peace-announce@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1034691654.3dac2446c52c6@webmail.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
To Those Seeking Commencement Speaker Recommendations:
As I understand it, last year students submitted a list of 20 candidates that
they would have liked to be the keynote speaker. Then Pres. Vest simply chose
James Wolfensohn, ignoring that list and any other student input. Indeed,
ignoring loud cries of disapproval.
Given this very recent history, why should this year's students bother to
submit recommendations? Can the body overseeing this process GUARANTEE that
the final choice will come from a verified student proposal? Wouldn't it be
foolish to go through this process again without such a (written) guarantee?
Jeff Duritz
MCP '03
