Also from today's Chronicle, more commencement speakers:

Case Western Reserve University: Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews

Ferrum College: U.S. Sen. John W. Warner, a Republican, of Virginia

Gannon University: The Rev. Edward A. Malloy, president of the University of Notre Dame

Hampden-Sydney College: U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican, of West Virginia

Nichols College: Arun Gandhi, a grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi and a co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

Portland State University: Neal Keny-Guyer, chief executive officer of Mercy Corps

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat, of New York

Rust College: The Rev. Gregory V. Palmer, bishop of the Iowa Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church

Stanford University: Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple Computer Inc. and of Pixar Animation Studios

University of Notre Dame: Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation and a former president of Brown University and the New York Public Library

University of Redlands: James R. Appleton, president of the university

University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College: U.S. Rep. Robert W. Ney, a Republican, of Ohio

University of Texas at Austin: Sara Martinez Tucker, president and chief executive officer of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund

University of Texas at Dallas: Russell A. Hulse, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and visiting professor at the university

Winston-Salem State University: Janet Reno, former U.S. attorney general

I wonder what Chris Mathews will have to say - he lost me years ago. Janet Reno can discuss when court orders should be obeyed (Teri Schiavo) and when court orders should not be obeyed (Elian Gonzales) by the executive branch. Hillary can try to explain how the left is grounded in an actual philsophy that is not zero-sum in nature.

It might be interesting to hear the grandson of Gandhi, but I wonder if we are getting too far removed from the original fountainhead. So far, the most interesting speaker might be Steve Jobs, but I wonder how many Stanford kids will be wearing I-Pods during his speach.