LMU to Notre Dame: We can get presidents to come speak at our graduations too!

While Notre Dame tapped President Barack Obama to speak at their commencement ceremony, LMU tapped another president to speak at this year's commencement, former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox. Fox served as president from 2000-2006. What makes the timing of the announcement interesting is that Fox was set to speak at the University of New Mexico's commencement, but the university recently canceled his speech due to logistical and security concerns. Although, word on the street is that students and faculty members were not too happy about the choice and expressed their discontent to the university. Fox is set to speak at a public lecture University of California at Irvine, next Wednesday, and some students plan to protest in response to his visit. I am sure that some LMU students will not be happy with this, but I have to wonder how far those students will go to have their discontent heard. The selection of Fox to speak at commencement is definitely interesting, with the recent events in Mexico, the ongoing immigration debate, are among things that many Americans tend to associate with Mexico as of late.

I wonder what he will say to the 1,200 or so seniors on May 9th. Given the current state of the economy, the fact he worked at Coca-Cola as a supervisor for operations in Latin America, and that the fact he supposedly made major bank during his term, he'll definitely say something about the economy (in case you haven't heard the economy sucks right now). Other than that I wouldn't have a clue what else he would say.

I didn't follow the Fox administration closely but this is certainly a pick I don't have a problem with because it will definitely get the campus community talking ; maybe even the world as Fox is still very much relevant in the public eye since leaving office. I think that this story will definitely make a bigger noise as we get closer to graduation, 37 days and counting.

---Faiza Mokhtar

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