Posts Tagged: speech

Amid COVID-19, graduation ceremonies go online

A photo illustration of graduation ceremonies held online. (Image: Ekaphon Maneechot, via Shutterstock

by LISA RENNER posted 05.11.2020

Several universities have committed to having an in-person graduation at a later date but in the meantime, they are doing the best they can by staging virtual celebrations. University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, as one example, is having a watch party on Facebook Live May 22 for the nearly 150 students who are graduating.

The art of the concession speech

Stunned supporters of Hillary Clinton await her Election Night concession speech in November 2016. (Photo: YouTube)

by CHUCK MCFADDEN posted 06.12.2018

It’s an art form that no one wants to get really, really good at.  Perhaps that’s because no one wants to practice it. It starts with “…a few minutes ago, I telephoned…” You guessed it.  Concession speeches.

The headline blared across the front page of Berkeley’s Daily Californian: “2,700 Homosexuals at Cal.” Today, it hardly seems newsworthy at the heart of California’s social liberalism, UC Berkeley. But in 1965, when the article was published, university police were removing every other stall door in men’s bathrooms to prevent such subversive behavior.

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