The First Lady to speak at UNI graduation this Saturday
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 11:21 pm
This was announced long ago, I just always forgot to post it here.
First Lady Michelle Obama will speak at UNI's spring commencement ceremony at 11 a.m., Saturday, May 7, in the UNI-Dome on the UNI campus. The university will consolidate three ceremonies into one to provide all graduates the opportunity to be addressed by the First Lady.
All 16,500 tickets (free) that were available to be claimed have been claimed.
If you are interested in watching it UNI will live stream it at: live.uni.edu/commencement The commencment will start at 11AM Central.
I'm not entirely sure what the topic of her speech will be. Regardless what I may feel about their political stances I think this is a pretty big deal for UNI.
The crappy part is there are normally 3 graduation ceremonies at UNI. This year all three have been combined into 1 big ceremony so that all 1,900 graduating students can have her as the keynote speaker. All 1,900 are walking across the stage still. Normally a graduation ceremony at UNI is about 2-2.5 hours...this one will probably reach 3.5 hours. It starts at 11 but due to security and the number of people attending it is being suggested those attending be there by 8AM when the doors open.
Security is going to be crazy in Cedar Falls Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to ensure there isn't anything stupid going on.
First Lady Michelle Obama will speak at UNI's spring commencement ceremony at 11 a.m., Saturday, May 7, in the UNI-Dome on the UNI campus. The university will consolidate three ceremonies into one to provide all graduates the opportunity to be addressed by the First Lady.
All 16,500 tickets (free) that were available to be claimed have been claimed.
If you are interested in watching it UNI will live stream it at: live.uni.edu/commencement The commencment will start at 11AM Central.
I'm not entirely sure what the topic of her speech will be. Regardless what I may feel about their political stances I think this is a pretty big deal for UNI.
The crappy part is there are normally 3 graduation ceremonies at UNI. This year all three have been combined into 1 big ceremony so that all 1,900 graduating students can have her as the keynote speaker. All 1,900 are walking across the stage still. Normally a graduation ceremony at UNI is about 2-2.5 hours...this one will probably reach 3.5 hours. It starts at 11 but due to security and the number of people attending it is being suggested those attending be there by 8AM when the doors open.
Security is going to be crazy in Cedar Falls Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to ensure there isn't anything stupid going on.
