[GeneD]

I think they're doing better already!

[SiKKuS]

Screw those snooty little brats, Mr Rogers was the comencement speaker at my wifes graduation years ago at UCONN. His speech was excellent and everyone was happy that the guy who was there when they started with their education was there to help send them off on their way when they had finished it. What a bunch of smallminded ungrateful scumbags. I suppose they would have rather had someone like Hillary. People like that make me want to puke!

[Corporate Law]

Another reason why the notion that the Ivies are the "best and brightest" is bunk. One speech by Mr. Rogers would probably teach them more than they learned in four years of Dartmouth drivel. Second, looking at the list of past speakers, Mr. Rogers is far more intellectual and honorable when compared to those idiots and criminals (and I have always considered Mr. Rogers to be extremely intelligent after reading interviews with him regarding child development). This honorable man deserves better than to be criticized by these little twerps.

A proud graduate of a NON-Ivy League school.

[Zack Attack]

Dartmouth College President James Wright, who made the final choice of the commencement speaker, said a good speaker is someone students can look up to, who can draw from experience and make timely remarks.

Past Dartmouth commencement speakers have included Robert Reich, Bill Clinton, George Mitchell and Madeline Albright.

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Anyone else see a problem with the logic flow here?

[admiralsn]

"We're 22 years old and we're getting lectured by a guy who plays with puppets for a living."

Yeah, like Bill Clinton, who played with himself?????

What a bunch of spoiled brat whiners. I would have loved to have had Mr. Rogers as my commencement speaker. To be honest, mine made such an impression, I don't even remember him, or her. But in any event, I grew up with Mr. Rogers, and I loved him. And still do. These kids could still stand to learn a thing or two from a decent man.

[LiteKeeper]

Part of his bio:

In 1968 Rogers was appointed Chairman of the Forum on Mass Media and Child Development of the White House Conference on Youth. Besides two George Foster Peabody Awards, Emmys, "Lifetime Achievement" Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the TV Critics Association, Fred Rogers has received every major award in television for which he is eligible and many others from special-interest groups in education, communications, and early childhood. In 1999, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame