Bill Cosby will be the Commencement speaker at this year's spring ceremony, which will be held Sunday, May 19, at 9:30 a.m. in the BMO Harris Bradley Center. As part of the ceremony, Cosby will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree.
Yeah, but which Bill Cosby is going to show up?
The Happy Jello Pudding Bill Cosby, or the Angry Old Man Bill Cosby?
Quote from: warriorchick on April 08, 2013, 07:41:28 PM
Yeah, but which Bill Cosby is going to show up?
The Happy Jello Pudding Bill Cosby, or the Angry Old Man Reasonable PHD. Bill Cosby?
FIFY
Quote from: warriorchick on April 08, 2013, 07:41:28 PM
Yeah, but which Bill Cosby is going to show up?
The Happy Jello Pudding Bill Cosby, or the Angry Old Man Bill Cosby?
My money is on grumpiness.
Either way, it cannot, however, be remotely worse than mine: some bishop from the Philiiipines. Zzzzzzzzzzz.
He's no Captain Kangaroo.
Mr. Rogers was a boss of a grad speaker.
Quote from: Sir Lawrence on April 08, 2013, 07:49:18 PM
My money is on grumpiness.
Either way, it cannot, however, be remotely worse than mine: some bishop from the Philiiipines. Zzzzzzzzzzz.
I got Hannah Gray president of the University of Chicago. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZz
SI sportswriter Steve Rushin. It was awesome.
Cosby did my brothers graduation at Bradley a few years back. Was funny and on point.
Dudes got more honorary degrees than Clinton bush and Obama combined.
Cosby sucks.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on April 08, 2013, 08:54:06 PM
Cosby did my brothers graduation at Bradley a few years back. Was funny and on point.
Dudes got more honorary degrees than Clinton bush and Obama combined.
Please watch your capitalization. I kind of misread that at first. TY.
Quote from: Sir Lawrence on April 08, 2013, 07:49:18 PM
My money is on grumpiness.
Either way, it cannot, however, be remotely worse than mine: some bishop from the Philiiipines. Zzzzzzzzzzz.
Cardinal Jaime Sin?
He's famous.
Over there.
I had the Sears CEO. MU Grad was he.
THAT was zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on April 08, 2013, 11:43:14 PM
I had the Sears CEO. MU Grad was he.
THAT was zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Edward Brennan.
Barbara Bush
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on April 08, 2013, 11:43:14 PM
Cardinal Jaime Sin?
He's famous.
Over there.
I had the Sears CEO. MU Grad was he.
THAT was zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
The late Cardinal Sin was a phenomenal person. His disgust with Marcos rapaciousness and concern for the abysmal poverty of his flock is what brought an end to their reign. Without him there would not have been the Yellow Revolution that brought Aquino to power. Sin would have been a great choice.
Unfortunately it was an unknown bishop who was more unintelligible than he was undistinguished. He had some connection with Buck Raynor's sister, I heard. Fame or renown is the least important criterion for a commencement speaker but this guy had no insight, inspiration, or revelation.
Someone here listed Buck Raynor as one of the great's in MU history but I could not disagree more. The capital plan languished, the area deteriorated, he said no to joining the Big East stand-up, etc...
My commencements at Michigan and Harvard had Lee Iacocca and Helmut Kohl. Both were extremely interesting. They offered rare glimpses into what they had to deal with and how they tackled these issues and articulated why they were successful. They offered their views on what they saw in the future and how we, as freshly minted grads, fit into that weltanschauung. Hell, the speaker for my class at Georgetown Prep was Ronald Reagan.
Quote from: warriorchick on April 08, 2013, 07:41:28 PM
Yeah, but which Bill Cosby is going to show up?
The Happy Jello Pudding Bill Cosby, or the Angry Old Man Bill Cosby?
When my wife was around running things we had season tickets to the Seattle Symphony. One year we missed the first half of the season due to a deployment so we crammed all of our tickets into the last three months when there is less symphony and more pastiche. One evening was Cosby at Benaroya Hall. Cosby was funny, insightful, and pointed in his social commentary. Unlike most, who make apologies for stupidity, Cosby demanded accountability and an acceptance of responsibility. But the beauty of Cosby, at least on this evening, was that his anger was cleverly wrapped in wry nudges and scintillating bon mots that delivered the message without deflating the spirit. He is an American Classic. I think he is an exquisite selection as Commencement Speaker. Marquette should be proud.
Quote from: PTM on April 08, 2013, 09:27:56 PM
Cosby sucks.
Your lack of eloquence is exceeded only by your fatuousness. Cosby is brilliant in ways you will never fathom, understand, or appreciate. Pearls before swine was never more true.
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on April 08, 2013, 11:43:14 PM
Cardinal Jaime Sin?
He's famous.
Nope. It was:
His Excellency
MOST REV. FRANCISCO F. CLAVER, SJ,
Better than the Class of 1991 speaker for as I cannot tell you who he was.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on April 09, 2013, 07:11:11 AM
Better than the Class of 1991 speaker for as I cannot tell you who he was.
Some sociologist. Awful. Actually, he was so boring that the students were talking among themselves to an embarrassing degree. It was either that or stabbing our ears with sharp objects. Honestly, never before or since have I seen a crowd so completely ignore a speaker.
Quote from: StillAWarrior on April 09, 2013, 07:18:32 AM
Some sociologist. Awful. Actually, he was so boring that the students were talking among themselves to an embarrassing degree. It was either that or stabbing our ears with sharp objects. Honestly, never before or since have I seen a crowd so completely ignore a speaker.
James Coleman.
http://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/commencement/start
in '86, we had a Theology professor from Loyola. Horrible. My sister two years later had Chief Justice Renquist, who has Milwaukee (Racine?) ties. All I remember from that was the sense that he regretted the life he had lived in that he had failed to allocate the finite resource of time better--not enough with his family etc. Dude, you're the lifetime tenured C.J. of the freakin' Supreme Court. Really?
Rehnquist grew up in Shorewood.
Dick Enberg, unmemorable
Quote from: warriorchick on April 08, 2013, 07:41:28 PM
Yeah, but which Bill Cosby is going to show up?
The Happy Jello Pudding Bill Cosby, or the Angry Old Man Bill Cosby?
They'd be lucky if it was the "I Spy" Cosby.
Don't worry, I've got you all beat. 2004 Wayne Sanders. He was the guy who promised a million dollars if they changed the name back to Warriors.
We all went nuts, then nothing happened.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on April 09, 2013, 09:32:36 AM
Don't worry, I've got you all beat. 2004 Wayne Sanders. He was the guy who promised a million dollars if they changed the name back to Warriors.
We all went nuts, then nothing happened.
Well...I guess that all depends on how you define "nothing." Quite a lot happened...
then "nothing" happened.
I guess one good thing that came out of all that was the MU logo. I like that logo, and it seems to have slowed the proliferation of the Golden Eagles logo.
Quote from: Golden Avalanche on April 09, 2013, 09:03:28 AM
They'd be lucky if it was the "I Spy" Cosby.
That would be sweet!
Any chance he brings Mortimer Ichabod with him?
Bill Cosby is such a legend, I think this is really cool. Speaking of Cosby, I'd liken the 2008 speaker, Andrew Natsios, to the first 35 minutes of the film Ghost Dad.
Quote from: StillAWarrior on April 09, 2013, 07:18:32 AM
Some sociologist. Awful. Actually, he was so boring that the students were talking among themselves to an embarrassing degree. It was either that or stabbing our ears with sharp objects. Honestly, never before or since have I seen a crowd so completely ignore a speaker.
That's about what I remember sitting in the Bradley Center. I recall thinking if there was anyway the speaker might realize this and just pull his own plug. No such luck.
I guess the memorable part was that it was boring & completely unmemorable.
Rehnquist, and he was dreadfully dull. Completely upstaged by the student speaker. Matt McCue(sp?), IIRC.
what about the Picture Pages Cosby? Bet you have that song in your head now.
or
"cuz you're white but have a snoz like Bill Cosby." --Bloodhound Gang
I think the speaker in 1974 was Adelei Stevenson.
Quote from: Blue Horseshoe on April 09, 2013, 10:30:24 AM
Bill Cosby is such a legend, I think this is really cool. Speaking of Cosby, I'd liken the 2008 speaker, Andrew Natsios, to the first 35 minutes of the film Ghost Dad.
Natsios was the worst. I honestly can't imagine a speech being worse than that. I remember looking up and seeing my Dad asleep (literally).
Hammerin' Hank Aaron was pretty good last year. It was interesting to hear him talk about walking past campus on his way to the ballpark every day.
Quote from: WarriorCode on April 18, 2013, 06:10:39 PM
Hammerin' Hank Aaron was pretty good last year. It was interesting to hear him talk about walking past campus on his way to the ballpark every day.
Wasn't old County Stadium located next to what is now Miller Park? I have difficulty believing he'd walk the 3ish miles (plus the additional distance from his home) to the ballpark every day.
Buck Raynor. They certainly tried hard that year ('79).
Quote from: Blue Horseshoe on April 19, 2013, 01:12:13 PM
Wasn't old County Stadium located next to what is now Miller Park? I have difficulty believing he'd walk the 3ish miles (plus the additional distance from his home) to the ballpark every day.
Didn't you know Hank Aaron lived at McCormick?
Quote from: Blue Horseshoe on April 19, 2013, 01:12:13 PM
I have difficulty believing he'd walk the 3ish miles (plus the additional distance from his home) to the ballpark every day.
and it was uphill both ways
The 78-year-old Aaron was given an honorary doctorate Sunday. His wife was also in attendance.
"I passed your campus many times, walking to County Stadium in 1954, my rookie year with the Milwaukee Braves," Aaron said to the graduates. "I had no car."
Anyone know of a link of all the honorary degrees handed out?
Sister Rosemary Connelly is also being awarded is MU honorary doctorate this year. If she doesn't leave the crowd awed and teary eyed, I doubt any speaker will. A living saint. Long overdue for MU to recognize her efforts...long overdue. Poor Bill Cosby to follow her.
There is nothing more meaningless and overrated than commencement speakers. The whole ceremony and the day, in general, is a giant waste of time.
Quote from: warriorchick on April 08, 2013, 07:41:28 PM
Yeah, but which Bill Cosby is going to show up?
The Happy Jello Pudding Bill Cosby, or the Angry Old Man Bill Cosby?
Hopefully the angry old man because we need to hear the harsh reality of life. Plus, it will give us something to talk about.
I think I (class of '05) have you all beat. Cokie Roberts......
Although the one highlight was watching a beach ball get bounced around during the speech and then looking down the row and seeing some poor, completely hungover, unsuspecting, about read to fall over in their chair person getting smoked in the face with the beach ball.
Quote from: Strokin 3s on April 26, 2013, 09:48:06 AM
I think I (class of '05) have you all beat. Cokie Roberts......
She'd be a lot cooler if she had anything whatsoever to do with Kokie's.
http://www.vice.com/read/kokies-v15n1 (http://www.vice.com/read/kokies-v15n1)
Quote from: Strokin 3s on April 26, 2013, 09:48:06 AM
I think I (class of '05) have you all beat. Cokie Roberts......
I have heard Cokie Roberts speak a few times and she has always been excellent. One of the finest eulogies I have heard was delivered by Roberts for Betty Ford. Roberts father was Hale Boggs, the House Majority Leader when Jerry Ford was the Minority leader. Roberts had a unique perspective on American politics and commented that when something really needed to get done her father and Ford would drive together to Martin's Tavern in Georgetown where, over steaks and scotch, they would reach a consensus.
She observed that members from both sides of the aisle socialized year round, leaving political differences at the door. That never happens now, of course, and most families do not take up residence in DC so members fly home for the weekend on Thursday night. The spatial displacement contributes greatly to the lack of civility.
Roberts related how her mother, Lindy, and Betty Ford were tremendous influences for the good on their husbands an America benefited from their wisdom and humanity. The fact that Lindy Boggs and Betty Ford were friends went a long way towards helping America find a consensus that no longer exists.
Quote from: keefe on April 27, 2013, 05:32:29 PM
I have heard Cokie Roberts speak a few times and she has always been excellent. One of the finest eulogies I have heard was delivered by Roberts for Betty Ford. Roberts father was Hale Boggs, the House Majority Leader when Jerry Ford was the Minority leader. Roberts had a unique perspective on American politics and commented that when something really needed to get done her father and Ford would drive together to Martin's Tavern in Georgetown where, over steaks and scotch, they would reach a consensus.
She observed that members from both sides of the aisle socialized year round, leaving political differences at the door. That never happens now, of course, and most families do not take up residence in DC so members fly home for the weekend on Thursday night. The spatial displacement contributes greatly to the lack of civility.
Roberts related how her mother, Lindy, and Betty Ford were tremendous influences for the good on their husbands an America benefited from their wisdom and humanity. The fact that Lindy Boggs and Betty Ford were friends went a long way towards helping America find a consensus that no longer exists.
That may be and I don't doubt she is a good speaker for the sort of venue you are talking. But part of being a good speaker is knowing your audience and in that respect she failed miserably as a commencement speak.