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Author Topic: Commencement Speaker 2019  (Read 8600 times)

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Commencement Speaker 2019
« on: March 29, 2019, 03:42:00 PM »
David Brooks from NYT



"I hate everything about this job except the games, Everything. I don't even get affected anymore by the winning, by the ratings, those things. The trouble is, it will sound like an excuse because we've never won the national championship, but winning just isn't all that important to me.” Al McGuire

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2019, 04:03:26 PM »
Gotta be better than the snooze fest that was Rehnquist.
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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2019, 04:24:22 PM »
blllleeeerrrrrggggghhhhhh

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2019, 05:48:13 PM »
I admit it .. I have a man crush on David Brooks. 

How do you scalp tickets to the commencement? 

I assume .. will it be at the Chaluparena?

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2019, 07:54:07 PM »
I admit it .. I have a man crush on David Brooks. 

How do you scalp tickets to the commencement? 

I assume .. will it be at the Chaluparena?

Just walk in, brother.  No tickets required.
Have some patience, FFS.

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2019, 11:33:18 PM »
Thinking out loud ...

with Milwaukee being in a swing state, and having the democrat convention, do you think MU should ask the presumptive Democrat nominee to be the commencement speaker next year (May 2020)? (assuming we know by April 2020 who it will be)

For the record, I've never been a fan of Brooks.  Find him boring on PBS.

Corrected ... added the word “in” ... happy chick?
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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2019, 11:11:26 AM »
Thinking out loud ...

with Milwaukee being a swing state, and having the democrat convention, do you think MU should ask the presumptive Democrat nominee to be the commencement speaker next year (May 2020)? (assuming we know by April 2020 who it will be)

For the record, I've never been a fan of Brooks.  Find him boring on PBS.

Milwaukee is a state?  No one tells me these things!

Have some patience, FFS.

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2019, 07:24:12 AM »
I have always thought it is a great idea to celebrate the hard work of graduating seniors by picking a politician to speak and ruin the day for half of the attendees.  Brilliant!

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2019, 08:04:43 AM »
I have always thought it is a great idea to celebrate the hard work of graduating seniors by picking a politician to speak and ruin the day for half of the attendees.  Brilliant!

If you are referring to Brooks .. he's not a politician.  True, he's a conservative opinion writer and author -- and yeah, over 20 years he's likely written columns that tick people off .. but his speech won't be about politics at all.   

His speech will be about character and happiness.  I'll bet he does a riff about cura personalis -- and Real Chili.

It'll be about his organization, Weave, which travels the country to find "weavers" who try to heal social fragmentation and loneliness, who "live a life of community and not a life of self."

"The question for each of us is: What can I do today and tomorrow to replace loneliness, division and distrust with relationship, community and purpose? "

If that's not right in Marquette's wheelhouse, I don't know what is.

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2019, 08:15:09 AM »
If you are referring to Brooks .. he's not a politician.  True, he's a conservative opinion writer and author -- and yeah, over 20 years he's likely written columns that tick people off .. but his speech won't be about politics at all.   

His speech will be about character and happiness.  I'll bet he does a riff about cura personalis -- and Real Chili.

It'll be about his organization, Weave, which travels the country to find "weavers" who try to heal social fragmentation and loneliness, who "live a life of community and not a life of self."

"The question for each of us is: What can I do today and tomorrow to replace loneliness, division and distrust with relationship, community and purpose? "

If that's not right in Marquette's wheelhouse, I don't know what is.

Signed,

David Brooks Fan Club, Milwaukee Chapter

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There are some people who believe if a person expresses an opinion that differs from theirs, it's politics.

If a person expresses an opinion that is the same as theirs, it's The Truth.
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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2019, 05:23:48 PM »
I have always thought it is a great idea to celebrate the hard work of graduating seniors by picking a politician to speak and ruin the day for half of the attendees.  Brilliant!

Yup. Although at least an elected politician theoretically makes half the attendees happy, and is known for some sort of message or work that is implicitly supported by the school that selected him or her. IMHO David Brooks doesn't bring any more to the table as a commencement speaker than he has in his articles and interviews in the last 30 years.

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2019, 08:02:28 AM »
Yup. Although at least an elected politician theoretically makes half the attendees happy, and is known for some sort of message or work that is implicitly supported by the school that selected him or her. IMHO David Brooks doesn't bring any more to the table as a commencement speaker than he has in his articles and interviews in the last 30 years.

The hope with Brooks and/or a politician is they are good public speakers and therefore entertaining. 

Plenty of interesting people in the world that are just not good at public speaking. 

Arguably the most consequential person to ever speak at commencement was Mother Teresa in 1981.  The problem was she is not a very good public speaker in english.

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2019, 01:55:29 PM »
If you are referring to Brooks ..

I had no specific speaker in mind

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2019, 05:35:22 PM »
Video of the commencement address.

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2019, 05:40:23 PM »
Video of the commencement address.

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His first 60 seconds he probably wants a do over
"I hate everything about this job except the games, Everything. I don't even get affected anymore by the winning, by the ratings, those things. The trouble is, it will sound like an excuse because we've never won the national championship, but winning just isn't all that important to me.” Al McGuire

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2019, 08:54:28 PM »
I've listened to 4-5 of his commencement addresses.  His first few minutes are part of his standard routine, so some of those jokes are 5+ years old, reused every year.

Actually .. of that 20 minute speech .. I've heard 18 of it before.

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2019, 11:22:10 AM »
Couldnt be any worse than the 2017 speaker...whom did not speak a word of English.  Truly a low point.
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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2019, 02:10:10 PM »
Couldnt be any worse than the 2017 speaker...whom did not speak a word of English.  Truly a low point.

Or having your commencement speaker be a serial rapist...
Have some patience, FFS.

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2019, 02:33:04 PM »
Couldnt be any worse than the 2017 speaker...whom did not speak a word of English.  Truly a low point.

If you have a few drinks before the ceremony, none of them will speak English.
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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #19 on: June 04, 2019, 09:16:26 AM »
A transcript of the speech can be found on the Scoop Wiki:

https://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/commencement/2019

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2019, 07:52:31 AM »
David Brooks with an absolute scorching take in the Times today. 

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2019, 08:29:11 AM »
David Brooks with an absolute scorching take in the Times today.

I thought politics was out here.......
"I hate everything about this job except the games, Everything. I don't even get affected anymore by the winning, by the ratings, those things. The trouble is, it will sound like an excuse because we've never won the national championship, but winning just isn't all that important to me.” Al McGuire

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« Reply #22 on: June 18, 2019, 08:37:22 AM »
A transcript of the speech can be found on the Scoop Wiki:

https://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/commencement/2019

I thought that was an excellent speech.  Made this older gentleman think a bit about those decisions in my life.  Thanks for posting the link.
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« Reply #23 on: June 18, 2019, 08:39:38 AM »
I thought politics was out here.......

Didn’t get into specifics and didn’t link anything, and what’s political about a private institution making a choice in what they see is in their own best interest 🤔🤔🤔

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Re: Commencement Speaker 2019
« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2019, 09:07:09 AM »
Didn’t get into specifics and didn’t link anything, and what’s political about a private institution making a choice in what they see is in their own best interest 🤔🤔🤔

So we can now say things like Conway sure had a scorching take this morning, or Noonan, or Buchanan.....at this location without actually linking it?  What could go wrong? 

The hypocrisy from Harvard is the real story here, but that is nothing new.  Group think apparently is diversity now. 
"I hate everything about this job except the games, Everything. I don't even get affected anymore by the winning, by the ratings, those things. The trouble is, it will sound like an excuse because we've never won the national championship, but winning just isn't all that important to me.” Al McGuire