 | The Cavalier daily Thursday, November 4, 1971 |  |
Class Recommends Speakers
For Graduation Exercises
By MARGARET ALFORD
Graduating class representatives will
recommend Walter Cronkite, William
Buckley, Ralph Nader, and Senator
Edward Kennedy today as possible
speakers for Commencement next June.
The Executive Board of the 1972
graduating class will make
recommendations regarding
Commencement and other graduation
activities at a meeting of the Public
Occasions Committee this afternoon.
Hal Bogard
Graduating Class President
Mr. Cronkite was "the indisputable
favorite" in both a random poll of 10 per cent
of the class and a referendum held earlier,
according to Hal Bogard, 1972 class president.
Each of the four candidates for
Commencement speaker is, "capable of
appealing to a large, general audience, and is
not likely to severely alienate a large segment of
the University community prior to his speech,"
Mr. Bogard noted.
The Board will also recommend that the
wearing of caps and gowns be an open question
left to the discretion of individual degree
candidates, the only mention of dress code
being "that students are to dress
appropriately."
Class Day exercises need "no major
changes" in format, in the opinion of the
Executive Board. The suggested program,
"following roughly the same order of events"
as last year will take place on Saturday, June 3
at 10 a.m. on the Lawn.
Class representatives propose three
nationally-known figures as candidates for
Baccalaureate speaker. "Though in the past a
member of the academic community has always
been the speaker (when indeed there has been a
baccalaureate), we think that by having a more
prestigious speaker, we will make this occasion
a very attractive part of Graduation weekend,
rather than the somewhat perfunctory adjunct
it has been in the past," stated Mr. Bogard.
R. Buckminister Fuller, Senator Sam Irvin
and Senator Mark Hatfield are suggested
Baccalaureate speakers. The Executive Board
feels that the Baccalaureate address topic
should be given from an ethical rather than
religious activity at the University."
| The Cavalier daily Thursday, November 4, 1971 | |