I had to sit through some liberal no-name academic at my graduation. I sat there and took it because I was not a pre-schooler having a tantrum.
It would have been cool to have a VP to be there, even if it had been sitting VP algore.
Remember the college that had Kermit the Frog as a commencement speaker?
The students complained they were being talked to by a sock.
Then there was my daughter’s graduation in which a former US Senator spoke. This was just after the Columbine shootings and the speech was such a downer one of the grads said after, “Well, I guess we all might as well go out and kill ourselves!”