I went to my niece’s ceremony at Duquesne. The one for her school (Health Sciences), where she got her diploma.
The speaker did not go into politics. The priest giving the invocation and benediction was named Fr. McCool.
For some of the departments people were hugging the department head when they got their diplomas. Seemed odd to me. There was no hugging in engineering at CMU, let me tell you that!
I assume that in ANY engineering dept ceremony there would be no hugging! LOL! The speaker at the IT school grad was an alum class of 2006. He has started about 20+ companies, designed apps, done a million things. Said the reason he went out on his own was because he did not want to have to get up early for a job, so was going to figure out a way to work without getting up early. He was fun to listen to.