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From College Press Service
Around the nation, 1994 graduates
have been offered words of advice,
encouragement and cajolement by
commencement speakers. Yet at both
Bard College and East Stroudsburg
University, the commencement
speakers didn't speak at all. Instead,
they di'd what they did best - perform.
At Bard, world-renowned cellist
Yo-Yo Ma played a selection by
Bach, while at East Stroudsburg,
Grammy-award winner Phil Woods
offered students a sampling of his
original jazz compositions.
The following are excerpts of com
mencement speeches delivered this
graduation season:
James EarlJones, Actor
New York University,
May 12,1994
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You are facing new worlds of technology
so fast that if they don't throw
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implications of this technology
promises to be somewhere between
the eruption of a volcano and the discovery
of fire... And the greatest opportunity
awaits those of vou who
can keep up and with technology
and are prepared to be in the forefront
of an increasingly expanding
world.
Cathy Guiseivite, Cartoonist
University of Michigan,
April30, 1994
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of your own way. You have to separate
yourself from the 10,000 things
that are expected of you and concentrate
on something one day at a
time.. And when you're demoralized,
with no hope in your heart and a
pint of Hagen Daaz in your stomach,
crawl over to the box of junk you
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Ted Koppel, Television Journalist
Catholic University,
May 14,1994
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housand voices producing a daily
jarody of democracy in which everyrne's
opinion is afforded equal
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nerit...There have always been im>erfect
role models, false gods of ma
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tow their influence is magnified by
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loss Perot,
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ioston University, May 22,1994
We're coming out of the "me" geniration.
I hope as you come into the
wrld out of school, we're going ino
the "we" generation because if
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vork. All through life, just ask yourelf,
does it work? No, selfishness
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fill and you say, gee, are we going to
have to fill it? The answer is yes, an<J
you say why? Because it's there. We'll
all have to get busy and fill it together.
Colin L. Powell, Retired General
Howard University, May 14, 1994
Some say that by hosting control
versial speakers who shock our sensibilities,
Howard is in some way promoting
or endorsing their message.
Not at all. Howard has helped put
their message in perspective while
protecting their right to be heard. So
that the message can be exposed to
the full daylight...
But for this freedom to hear all
views, you bear a burden to sort out
wisdom from foolishness. There is
utter foolishness, evil and danger in
the message of hatred, or of condoning
violence, however cleverly .
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presented. We must find nothing to
stand up and cheer about or applaud
in a message of racial or ethnic hatred.
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