You do get bizarre choices for these overblown, largely meaningless events. Is anyone ever happy with a selected commencement speaker?
I suspect their objection isn't that Laura is "significant" not by her career efforts but by her dating choices. Sure she taught, she was a librarian but what has she DONE, on her own merit, to warrant the honour of speaking to these students? On that level, the "doctoral candidate" might have a point. Pity she's obviously blinded by left-wing reactionary instinct. No doubt she'll become a school principle or some other mess and ruin innumeral students educational careers in the process of miseducating them all the while plundering the taxpayers for excessive salary and benefits.