Graduation Speaker for the Class of 2007

Category: Education
Target: Emory Graduating Class of 2007
Author: Rebecca Hopkins (rahopki@learnlink.emory.edu)
URL: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/GraduationSpeaker2007/
Started: December 3, 2006, 6:33:57 pm
Generated Date: July 11, 2011, 7:23:28 pm
Total Signatures: 769

We, the graduating class of 2007, have a great deal of respect for President Wagner. However, in terms of
making our graduation special and meaningful, we would like to bring in an outside speaker for graduation.
We understand that we are still planning on bringing someone for Class Day. However, as President Wagner
already speaks at graduation about the specifics of the Emory community, the decision to have him as the
only speaker diminishes the importance of the ceremony.

SIGNATURES:

1. Rebecca Hopkins (12/3/06) 2. Monica Samanta (12/3/06) 3. Pooja R. Raval (12/3/06) 4. Michael Colasso (12/3/06) 5. Asha Natarajan (12/3/06) 6. Thomas Atack (12/3/06) 7. Andrea Cerulli (12/3/06) 8. Katherine Russett (12/3/06) 9. Laura Gordon (12/3/06) 10. Diana Mungall (12/3/06) 11. Michelle Marron (12/3/06) 12. Emily Reber (12/3/06) 13. Rasha Uthman (12/3/06) -

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14. Laura Gleason (12/3/06) 15. Sunjay Nunley (12/3/06) 16. Alex Owens (12/3/06) 17. Lauren Jacobwitz (12/3/06) 18. Logan Gans (12/3/06) 19. Brian Sperber (12/3/06) 20. Devon Haft (12/3/06) 21. Brittney Marks (12/3/06) 22. James Brosnan (12/3/06) 23. Eric Barvin (12/3/06) 24. Zachary Levin (12/3/06) 25. Heyne Lee (12/3/06) 26. Phoebe Alleman (12/3/06) 27. Victoria Haverly (12/3/06) 28. Rebecca Batterman (12/3/06) 29. Ted Kopta (12/3/06) 30. Marlina Lovett (12/3/06) 31. Nora Zenczak (12/3/06) 32. Alyse Katz (12/3/06) 33. Laura Eskander (12/3/06) 34. Noreen Giga (12/3/06) 35. Casey Pete (12/3/06) 36. Melissa Matles (12/3/06) 37. Jennifer Coughlin (12/3/06) 38. Elizabeth Kaplan (12/3/06) 39. Marshall Willis (12/3/06) - I think it is absolutely rediculous that a top 20 school is using its president as
the keynote speaker during commencement.

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40. Rachel Einstein-Sim (12/3/06) 41. Cavin Kindsvogel (12/3/06) 42. Casey Silverman (12/3/06) 43. Diana Kim (12/3/06) 44. christopher o'rourke (12/3/06) 45. Marat Massen (12/3/06) 46. Jennifer Lancaster (12/3/06) 47. Dana Morrison (12/3/06) 48. Jonas Curchack (12/3/06) 49. David Smith (12/3/06) - I believe that President Wagner has done amazing things for this university but I
also feel that there are countless other opportunities to be addressed by him and graduation should not be
just one of those.
50. Danielle Gill (12/3/06) 51. Janelle Gillings (12/3/06) 52. Eva Cox (12/3/06) 53. Paula Frances Gay (12/3/06) 54. Kelly Charhut (12/3/06) 55. Shireen Millicans (12/3/06) 56. Beth Evans (12/3/06) 57. Anu Mahendru (12/3/06) 58. Nazim Virji (12/3/06) 59. Claudia Ruiz (12/3/06) 60. Meris Lutz (12/3/06) 61. Vivek Salgaocar (12/3/06) 62. Mansi Bhandari (12/3/06) 63. Josh Klein (12/3/06) 64. kelly kristal (12/3/06) 65. Alex Sedler (12/3/06) -

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66. Jason Glushon (12/3/06) - Commencement is supposed to be special event and hear speakers that we
have NEVER heard before. What does 'keynote speaker' actually mean?
67. David Jackson (12/3/06) - If my whole family is coming to see me grauate, I want them to be treated to
something special.
68. Azeem Tajani (12/3/06) - I find this insulting.
69. Amanda Bloch (12/3/06) 70. Alexia Rostow (12/3/06) - Make graduation special!
71. Stephanie Owens-Burkha (12/3/06) 72. Lindsay Margolis (12/3/06) 73. rachel lubow (12/3/06) 74. Marcela Mateo (12/3/06) 75. Stephanie Whisnant (12/3/06) 76. Alia Hassanali (12/3/06) - Hmph!
77. Caitlin Hart (12/3/06) 78. Cari Pearson (12/3/06) 79. Bethany Powers (12/3/06) - This is not a step in the right direction for becoming a 'destination university.'
80. Imran Farooqi (12/3/06) 81. Mark Josepg (12/3/06) - We deserve someone more important to the world, not just the emory
community.
82. Laura Marbury (12/3/06) 83. Christina Casadonte (12/3/06) 84. Sarah Sweeney (12/3/06) 85. Meredith Roberts (12/3/06) 86. Rachel Kagel (12/3/06) 87. Tyler Immerman (12/3/06) 88. Noah Weiss (12/3/06) 89. Jenna Ebert (12/3/06) 90. Katherine Chou (12/3/06) -

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91. Bretton Saxon (12/3/06) - c'mon... really?

92. Jessica Kreps (12/3/06) - This is embarrassing for our school.
93. Alexandra Brodman (12/3/06) - If someone from the Emory community needs to speak, what about
Salman Rushdie?
94. Rachel Nelson (12/3/06) 95. Jennifer Eick (12/3/06) - President Wagner is a wonderful speaker, but someone we have all been able to
hear many times before. I would hope Emory is able to find a fresh face for commencement.
96. Adam Gerstein (12/3/06) - We deserve to hear a speaker who accomplished something great in life, not
the president of our university
97. Heena Virani (12/3/06) 98. Vanessa Van Petten (12/3/06) - Even if we don't get a prominent figure, at least get one of the published
and eloquent faculty to speak!
99. Jeff Samotny (12/3/06) 100. Joe Moss (12/3/06) - Wow. Just wow.
101. Heather Greenfield (12/3/06) 102. Alegra Chavez-Holzman (12/3/06) 103. Chelsea Allen (12/3/06) 104. Sumehra Premji (12/3/06) 105. Esther Abelman (12/3/06) 106. Cat Garofalo (12/3/06) 107. Susan R. Miller (12/3/06) 108. Eric Henken (12/3/06) 109. Brandon Bucker (12/3/06) 110. Tal Kramer (12/3/06) 111. Ben Decker (12/3/06) 112. Rebecca Dalton (12/3/06) 113. Jessica Lingo (12/3/06) 114. Jessica Feldman (12/3/06) 115. William Shawhughes (12/3/06) -

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116. Tyler Basen (12/3/06) 117. Emily Donohoe (12/3/06) - I went to a top 20 school for a reason, to at least get some recognition. At
most graduations doesn't the president and also a well known speaker speak?
118. Brandon Moore (12/3/06) - They have got to be joking...seriously.
119. Michael Gitner (12/3/06) 120. Tamara Goldschmidt (12/3/06) 121. Michael Kaufman (12/3/06) 122. Carrie Putterman (12/3/06) 123. Brian Magida (12/3/06) 124. Matt Soifer (12/3/06) 125. Shad Ali (12/3/06) 126. Sunandan Bandyopadhyay (12/3/06) 127. Eric Schaffer (12/3/06) 128. Dan Goldstein (12/3/06) 129. Andrew Lugerner (12/3/06) 130. Neil Grossman (12/3/06) 131. Elizabeth Scharf (12/3/06) 132. Sean Mobasser (12/3/06) 133. Melissa Rossman (12/3/06) 134. Bethany Bergmann (12/3/06) 135. Caitlin Lyman (12/3/06) 136. Caitlin Roberson (12/3/06) 137. Meghan Weddle (12/3/06) 138. Chris Jordan (12/3/06) 139. Patrick Mulligan (12/3/06) 140. Rachel Bell (12/3/06) 141. Kevin Rosenbaum (12/3/06) -

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142. Barbara Altimus (12/3/06) 143. Alison Langdon (12/3/06) 144. Mary Pascal (12/3/06) 145. James Lee (12/3/06) 146. Amber Williams (12/3/06) 147. Samantha Moskowitz (12/3/06) 148. Philip Krieger (12/3/06) 149. Charles Harrisson (12/3/06) 150. Katherine Kriegman (12/3/06) 151. Kelly Janes (12/3/06) 152. Michael Rabin (12/3/06) 153. Jarrod Levine (12/3/06) 154. Sam Adams (12/3/06) 155. Daniel Snyder (12/3/06) 156. Elyse Katz (12/3/06) 157. Hollis Wright (12/3/06) 158. Sara Huang (12/3/06) 159. Daniel Mandel (12/3/06) 160. Alexander Sotiriou (12/3/06) 161. Elise Taliercio (12/3/06) 162. Ryan Huff (12/3/06) 163. Shohei Ikoma (12/3/06) 164. Justin Vilinsky (12/3/06) 165. Sana Mahmood (12/3/06) 166. Jeremy Miller (12/3/06) 167. Eric Horan (12/3/06) 168. Shermeen Pirani (12/3/06) -

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169. Travis Cox (12/3/06) 170. Andrew Charles (12/3/06) 171. mike levin (12/3/06) 172. Steven Kahn (12/3/06) 173. Ryan Hill (12/3/06) 174. Griffin Baum (12/3/06) 175. Daniel Gray (12/3/06) 176. Melanie Lindner (12/3/06) 177. Michael Swartz (12/3/06) 178. Shaina Hecht (12/3/06) 179. Christie Pettitt-Schie (12/3/06) 180. Kim Mintzlaff (12/3/06) 181. Mollie Butler (12/3/06) 182. Michael Buchbinder (12/3/06) 183. Alisa Esser-Kahn (12/3/06) 184. David Caplan (12/3/06) 185. Jacob Stuart (12/3/06) 186. John Hardy Ehlers (12/3/06) 187. Lauren Klein (12/3/06) 188. Hunter McGrath (12/3/06) 189. Robert Richard (12/3/06) 190. Matt Levy (12/3/06) 191. Rekha Jhamnani (12/3/06) 192. Beth Sivertsen (12/3/06) 193. Tushar Jha (12/3/06) 194. jovonna rodriguez (12/3/06) 195. Leah Griffin (12/3/06) -

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196. Emily Jupiter (12/3/06) 197. Ryan Covert (12/3/06) 198. Ariel Katz (12/3/06) - I think President Wagner is fantastic but students look forward to having a special
outside speaker for graduation. We have always had that in the past and it is unfair for our graduating class
not to be given that same priviledge.
199. Lisa Kennish (12/3/06) 200. Daniel Chertok (12/3/06) 201. Julia Rohr (12/3/06) 202. Eric Stein (12/3/06) 203. Steven Haag (12/3/06) 204. Abby Arganese (12/3/06) 205. Erica E. Davis (12/3/06) 206. Matt Craig (12/3/06) - I'm glad President Wagner has been with us for 4 years and therefore wants this
to be a special commencment ceremony;however, personally, I've been looking forward to recieving a more
"high profile" commencement speaker for the past 4 years. If the school is trying to save money, maybe they
should just scrap the plans for a $100K statue of Dooley.
207. Sally Last (12/3/06) 208. Hannah Pringle (12/3/06) 209. Mark Ponticelli (12/3/06) 210. Lesley Silverman (12/3/06) 211. Judy Hsu (12/3/06) 212. Rachel Saltzman (12/3/06) - President Wagner is extreemly involved in student life, and has made
Emory better in the past four years. With that said he should speak at every graduation, in addition to an
outside speaker. Emory is a private institution and the students expect a certain standard. For 42,000 a year
we deserve an excellent speaker.
213. michael loizou (12/3/06) 214. Matthew Solomon (12/3/06) 215. Justin Seccombe (12/3/06) 216. Maya Silberman (12/3/06) 217. Dori Alexandre (12/3/06) 218. Erin Meyers (12/3/06) -

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219. Jamar R. Brown (12/3/06) 220. Josh Weiss (12/3/06) 221. Jordana Vigoda (12/3/06) 222. Nicholas Theisen (12/3/06) 223. Janica Woodley (12/3/06) 224. Jeremy Barr (12/3/06) 225. Steven Foy (12/3/06) - As others have mentioned, I have a great deal of personal respect for President
Wagner but feel that having him as our keynote speaker at Commencement is quite disappointing.
226. Lindsay Entsminger (12/3/06) 227. Ferin Hussain (12/3/06) 228. Erica Boutte (12/3/06) 229. Caitlin Parry (12/3/06) 230. Kate Kenner (12/3/06) 231. Alex Kamins (12/3/06) 232. Alex Pollack (12/3/06) 233. Matthew LeVine (12/3/06) 234. Drew Bookman (12/3/06) 235. Kavita Demla (12/3/06) 236. Tony Cottone (12/3/06) 237. michelle ascowitz (12/3/06) 238. Supriya Kotagal (12/3/06) 239. Ryan Eskridge (12/3/06) 240. Craig Miller (12/3/06) 241. Jessica Goldman (12/3/06) 242. Mozhdeh Hamraie (12/3/06) 243. Michael Budner (12/3/06) 244. Brooke Walis (12/3/06) -

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245. Robert Chao (12/3/06) 246. kristin (12/3/06) 247. Lauren Baker (12/3/06) 248. Rae Wynn-Grant (12/3/06) 249. Susan Joseph (12/3/06) 250. ross gillis (12/3/06) 251. Brandon Rust (12/3/06) 252. Marissa Rene (12/3/06) 253. Emily Marder (12/3/06) 254. Bethany Therriault (12/3/06) 255. Sara Harper (12/3/06) 256. christopher Redmond (12/3/06) 257. Mohit Gupta (12/3/06) 258. Brett Segel (12/3/06) 259. Kyle Krakauer (12/3/06) 260. Matthew Goldhill (12/3/06) 261. Haley Yarosh (12/3/06) 262. Max Lin (12/3/06) 263. Josh Apple (12/3/06) 264. Toni Jones (12/3/06) 265. Jessica Tannenbaum (12/3/06) 266. Ian Greenhaus (12/3/06) 267. Melissa Blechman (12/3/06) 268. Sam Cunningham (12/3/06) 269. Oliver Lopp (12/3/06) 270. Jacob Ensign (12/3/06) 271. Michael Coon (12/3/06) -

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272. Tim Cournoyer (12/3/06) 273. alan schonbrun (12/3/06) 274. Shaye Byers (12/3/06) 275. Mackenzie Hurlston (12/3/06) 276. Andrea Heflin (12/3/06) 277. Alykhan Mawji (12/3/06) 278. Kate Ronaldson (12/3/06) 279. Steven Batters (12/3/06) 280. Chad Maisel (12/3/06) 281. John Duncan (12/3/06) 282. Jesun Chun (12/3/06) 283. Adam Schacter (12/3/06) 284. Brett Zuckerman (12/3/06) 285. Adrienne Barry (12/3/06) 286. Tim Newton (12/3/06) 287. Tiffany Young (12/3/06) 288. Lee Tittsworth (12/3/06) 289. Joel Roberts (12/3/06) 290. Miranda Forte (12/3/06) 291. Michael Loewenstein (12/3/06) 292. Lisette Wilcox (12/3/06) 293. Ross Barker (12/3/06) 294. Rita Jen (12/3/06) 295. Scott Handwerker (12/3/06) 296. Simrata Iyer (12/3/06) 297. Michael Fentin (12/3/06) 298. Jesse Moskowitz (12/3/06) -

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299. Christopher Goddin (12/3/06) 300. Zach May (12/3/06) 301. Jacob DuBois (12/3/06) 302. Jennie Ann Parungao (12/3/06) 303. Elizabeth Kammel (12/3/06) 304. Lauren Ryckman (12/3/06) 305. Isaac Hausman (12/3/06) 306. Zoe Anderson (12/3/06) 307. Kabeer Khurana (12/3/06) 308. Scot Seitz (12/3/06) 309. Thomas Roos (12/3/06) 310. Alexis Smith (12/3/06) 311. Marissa Levy (12/3/06) 312. Kelly Gelfand (12/3/06) 313. michael Gibralter (12/3/06) 314. Colin FitzPatrick (12/3/06) 315. Ian Dorfman (12/3/06) 316. Nathan Hayden (12/3/06) 317. Derek Wetmore (12/3/06) 318. Jessica Moore (12/3/06) - I agree...I think Pres. Wagner is a fabulous speaker but I already assumed
that he would be speaking at graduation since that would be one of his responsibilities as President. As long
as whoever we bring isn't like last years speaker who was extremely impersonal and just a poor choice in
general.
319. Margaret McDowell (12/3/06) 320. Courtnay Klee (12/3/06) 321. Nnedike Ugoji (12/4/06) 322. Jennifer Cronin (12/4/06) 323. Mary C. Parker (12/4/06) -

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324. Peter Hirshberg (12/4/06) 325. Meghan McCord (12/4/06) 326. Cristina Kendall (12/4/06) 327. Eric Duchon (12/4/06) 328. Dustin Glass (12/4/06) 329. Sarah Schietroma (12/4/06) 330. Dana Fulenwider (12/4/06) 331. Sonal Bedi (12/4/06) 332. Emily Chinitz (12/4/06) 333. Freda Auyeung (12/4/06) 334. Jessica O'Neal (12/4/06) 335. Mariam Subjally (12/4/06) 336. Nick Spiro (12/4/06) 337. Sherise Anderson (12/4/06) 338. Lora Hogan (12/4/06) 339. Andrew Zalk (12/4/06) 340. Brittene' Vinnet (12/4/06) 341. Todd Rubin (12/4/06) 342. Benjamin Fund (12/4/06) - This entire situation is completely unfathomable.
343. Will Heath (12/4/06) 344. Evan Ratner (12/4/06) 345. Patricia Dodson (12/4/06) 346. Veanessa Jones (12/4/06) 347. craig newman (12/4/06) 348. Michael Maselli (12/4/06) 349. Nicholas Hudson (12/4/06) 350. Allison Dommu (12/4/06) -

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351. Jon Soffer (12/4/06) 352. Douglas Hoffmann (12/4/06) 353. Kunal Singh (12/4/06) 354. Jeanette Stecker (12/4/06) 355. matt Kaufman (12/4/06) - Fine. Now let's get a real problem.
356. Toral Parikh (12/4/06) 357. Krystal Rhodes (12/4/06) 358. Ben Rosenzweig (12/4/06) 359. Matt Nash (12/4/06) 360. Eric Goldfarb (12/4/06) 361. Katie Goldstein (12/4/06) 362. Trevor Owens (12/4/06) 363. Sam Sergay (12/4/06) 364. Kory Zverin (12/4/06) 365. Ghalib Lalani (12/4/06) 366. sarah binder (12/4/06) 367. Yasmeen Abdul-Baki (12/4/06) 368. Joel Frankel (12/4/06) 369. Leigh Ann Webster (12/4/06) 370. Bryan Olsen (12/4/06) 371. Adam Masarek (12/4/06) 372. Wesley Blalock (12/4/06) 373. Daniel Rosen (12/4/06) 374. Vidur Sachdeva (12/4/06) 375. Andrea Jones Berasaluc (12/4/06) 376. Alefiya Master (12/4/06) 377. Nicholas Limerick (12/4/06) -

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378. Melissa Neborsky (12/4/06) 379. Myles Levelle (12/4/06) 380. Brian Bishop (12/4/06) 381. Naomi Luski (12/4/06) 382. Greg Whitten (12/4/06) 383. Imran Halani (12/4/06) 384. Dima Ghali (12/4/06) 385. Raji Sandhu (12/4/06) 386. Douglas Kelly (12/4/06) - I think it would be really cool if we could get Courtney Love!
387. Tim Brady (12/4/06) 388. Stacey Simons (12/4/06) 389. Maria Budhwani (12/4/06) 390. Rachel Whilby (12/4/06) 391. Scott Schlesinger (12/4/06) 392. Seth Klugman (12/4/06) 393. josh nathan (12/4/06) 394. Laura Damerell (12/4/06) 395. Shelby Musser (12/4/06) 396. Liz Levy (12/4/06) 397. Rachel Meador (12/4/06) 398. Devin Moss (12/4/06) 399. Ruth Saperstein (12/4/06) 400. Danny Kronberg (12/4/06) 401. Erin Graves (12/4/06) 402. Jake Gantz (12/4/06) - Less money on Dooley statue, more on finding a speaker...
403. Katherine Meyer (12/4/06) 404. Rikki Warner (12/4/06) -

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405. Christine Wahr (12/4/06) 406. Alex Vinson (12/4/06) 407. Josh Puritz (12/4/06) 408. Chris Cabrera (12/4/06) 409. Farhan Hooda (12/4/06) 410. Rabia Masud (12/4/06) 411. Christina Chon (12/4/06) 412. Jamila Montaque (12/4/06) - This is the end of college...we need somebody that we don't see on a
regular basis.
413. Mary K. McCarthy (12/4/06) 414. Jeffrey Smith (12/4/06) 415. Tameka Joseph (12/4/06) 416. Jared Silverberg (12/4/06) 417. Chase Rea (12/4/06) 418. Ilona Kichko (12/4/06) 419. Gabriella Asmus (12/4/06) 420. Maggie Rogers (12/4/06) 421. Nathalie Weister (12/4/06) 422. Navin Varindani (12/4/06) 423. Christina Damalas (12/4/06) 424. Simon Tan (12/4/06) 425. Kile Krol (12/4/06) 426. Zachary Siegel (12/4/06) 427. David Levinson (12/4/06) 428. Curt Champagne (12/4/06) 429. Jennifer Teeter (12/4/06) 430. Takeia Horton (12/4/06) - Every other university gets a well-known speaker and that is what makes
graduation so special. I expected a famous speaker when I paid my $46,000.

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431. Cara Kamenev (12/4/06) 432. Justin Meyer (12/4/06) 433. Yih-Kang Lee (12/4/06) 434. Mara Prager (12/4/06) 435. Irfana Jetha (12/4/06) 436. Megan Khoury (12/4/06) 437. Brett Meager (12/4/06) 438. Austin Chan (12/4/06) 439. Jonathan Luk (12/4/06) 440. Shandra Scott (12/4/06) - I strongly agree with Takeia. If Emory wants to be viewed on par with Ivy
League institutions such as Harvard or Yale, then they need to behave as those institutions. Therefore, a high
profile speaker at our graduation is a necessary component. No offense to Pres. Wagner, but it is
disrespectful to the graduating class for Emory to not bother to bring in a noteworthy speaker.
441. Christian Rizk (12/4/06) 442. Emily Gottesman (12/4/06) 443. Megan Chanell (12/4/06) 444. Cory Bradburn (12/4/06) 445. Hayley Rosen (12/4/06) 446. Josh Goodman (12/4/06) 447. Laura Brooks (12/4/06) - Borat.
448. Joseph Goodman (12/4/06) 449. Lynn Chen (12/4/06) 450. James Vanneman (12/4/06) 451. Sherry Cotlar (12/4/06) 452. Ariele Fredman (12/4/06) 453. Chris Kattelus (12/4/06) 454. Kelly Gibson (12/4/06) 455. Nat Khuwatsamrit (12/4/06) -

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456. Emily Hetherington (12/4/06) 457. Nolan E. Phillips (12/4/06) - It is absurd to have President Wagner give another speech at graduation.
He is already to talk about the Emory community, so why have him as our speaker? Is it cheaper to just have
one person speak twice? Is the 45 grand a year from all the graduating students not enough to get a notable
OUTSIDE speaker? We try to call ourselves "The Harvard of the South" but we look like a community college
having its' president as the graduating speaker. Thanks for shortchaning us once again Emory; I'm sure this
will help with alumni donations....
458. Kevin Janflone (12/4/06) 459. Ross Andre (12/4/06) 460. Daphne Pierre (12/4/06) 461. Shari Kashani (12/4/06) 462. Amit Rustgi (12/4/06) - wagner has bad breath, hooves, and brown teeth
463. Jen Kha (12/4/06) 464. Andrew Fleming (12/4/06) 465. Stephen Chelko (12/4/06) - this is ri-dunk-ulous.....thanks emory for saving the few bucks you might
have. i mean maybe we should put parking pass moolah towards our graduation...god knows those damn
hang-tags already burn holes in our wallets
466. Daniel Bellware (12/4/06) 467. Brandon Kernan (12/4/06) - Does Wagner even speak english? The guy is clearly going bald, I would
rather start a relationship with a furrie than go on a date with Wags.
468. Lakshmi Gupta (12/4/06) 469. Charlotta Eriksson (12/4/06) 470. Solomon Stein (12/4/06) 471. William Stahl (12/4/06) 472. Josh Langer (12/4/06) 473. Steven Jon Lee (12/4/06) 474. Heather Schwartz (12/4/06) 475. Camille Dizon (12/4/06) 476. Afzaal Iqbal (12/4/06) 477. Kinda Baker (12/4/06) 478. Joshua Ross (12/4/06) -

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479. Michaela DuBay (12/4/06) - Wagner will already be speaking at the event, we're just being cheap and
not finding someone else. I'm pretty sure $160,000 is worth more than a free speaker.
480. Jane Farrington (12/4/06) 481. Brenton Kinker (12/4/06) 482. Christina Stewart (12/4/06) 483. Laura Bedson (12/4/06) 484. Patricia Grosse (12/4/06) 485. Ashley Sroka (12/4/06) - With all due respect to President Wagner. This has nothing to do with not liking
or supporting him in any way.
486. Robyn Brower (12/4/06) 487. Alan Thomas (12/4/06) 488. DONNA EGAN (12/4/06) 489. Stephen Crump (12/4/06) 490. Sharon C. Sibley (12/4/06) 491. Greg Marx (12/4/06) 492. David Eytel (12/4/06) 493. Tina Termei (12/4/06) 494. Lisa Einhorn (12/4/06) 495. Shama Barday (12/4/06) 496. Jimmy Ma (12/4/06) 497. Anna Murphy (12/4/06) 498. Mai Nguyen (12/4/06) - "39 Marshall Willis I think it is absolutely rediculous that a top 20 school is using
its president as the keynote speaker during"commencement
499. Stephanie Bruno (12/4/06) - An important speaker will benefit the university as well as the seniors. Many
other top universities seek well-known graduation speakers to attract publicity and prestige. Hello Emory, get
on the ball!!
500. Kurtis Lee (12/4/06) 501. Fareen Jiwani (12/4/06) 502. Alexandra Bernon (12/4/06) -

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503. Vincent Yen (12/4/06) 504. Lisa Gould (12/4/06) 505. Craig Wirth (12/4/06) 506. Lettresha Turner (12/4/06) 507. Cory Bullock (12/4/06) 508. Molly Wagman (12/4/06) 509. Angela McFarlin (12/4/06) 510. Katie Trust (12/4/06) 511. Ashley Cerone (12/4/06) 512. Anthony Berta (12/4/06) - In order to be a 'desintation university,' Emory should follow the lead of the
truly 'destination' schools and find a speaker that provides insight and debate on topics other than those on
campus...if Emory can't scrounge up enough money out of their ~$5 billion endowment, then maybe they're
just content to keep planting flowers and building excess projects with the millions upon millions that students
pay to become enlightened at a 'destination school'....this university has a champagne mouth yet a beer
wallet when it comes to the students
513. Alex Trimble (12/4/06) 514. John Chase Wilson (12/4/06) 515. Rene Mursky-Fuller (12/4/06) 516. Kaile Barnes (12/4/06) 517. Katherine Dunning (12/4/06) 518. Daniel Eisenman (12/4/06) - No Comment
519. Wendy Leiser (12/4/06) 520. Elizabeth Oquendo (12/4/06) 521. Michelle Tucker (12/4/06) 522. Blair Tilghman (12/4/06) 523. Mitchell Halpern (12/4/06) 524. Kira Langoussis (12/4/06) - My boyfriend goes to UGA, and every year we have compared our
graduation speakers, UGA manages to recruit better speakers. Why, at such an important institution, are we
not making an effort to connect important figures to our campus?
525. Clayton LaForge (12/4/06) - He seems like a nice guy in his emails, but that's really the only way in
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526. Lydia Moore (12/4/06) 527. Rachel Harrison (12/4/06) - graduation speechs are all so hackneyed that it takes a truly talented orator
to make a memorable one...my vote goes to Clinton (again!)
528. Joe Casper (12/4/06) - I've never heard anything so absurd... except for that time I got kicked off
campus and had to find an apartment in the middle of finals. The people who are given the power to make
decisions around have become a joke.
529. Alex Fuchs (12/4/06) 530. Gladys Tso (12/4/06) 531. Pasinee Chatpaiboon (12/4/06) 532. Carolyn Englar (12/4/06) 533. Briana Goldstein (12/4/06) 534. Hoi Kiu Poon (12/4/06) 535. Bo Schill (12/4/06) 536. Tara (12/4/06) 537. chris rue (12/4/06) - NICHOLAS KRISTOF
538. Meghan Callier (12/4/06) - yeah this can't happen, I don't agree with it.
539. Jared Finkel (12/4/06) 540. Jessica Lloyd (12/4/06) 541. Brian Platt (12/4/06) - So, a pirate walks into a bar, and the bartender goes "Hey you got a ships wheel
in your pants" and the pirate goes "arrrrr, its drivin me nuts!!!" classic.
542. Song Yi Kwak (12/4/06) 543. Serene Al-Kawas (12/4/06) - lame.
544. wayne brady (12/4/06) - I hate dave chappelle
545. david mandelbaum (12/4/06) 546. Matthias Whitson (12/4/06) - dido to Clinton.
547. Luke Anderson (12/4/06) 548. Ben Sheehan (12/4/06) - First I get screwed with parking passes and over 1000 bucks in parking fines
thus far, mostly for standing by the lib w/ flashers. Then my fraternity gets kicked off campus mid-finals. Then
my CAS petition gets denied for no apparent reason. Then they continue to charge me for 'damages' over a
year after I moved out of the former Pike house. Now I can't even get a famous face to questionably reassure
that I'll succeed in my future endeavors. Emory, you have done pretty much everything possible to make me

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never want to donate a dime once I throw my cap in the air. Congratulations.
549. Shantal Chan-Friday (12/4/06) 550. Eli Gottlieb (12/4/06) 551. Alana Karp (12/4/06) 552. Vidhi Kotahwala (12/4/06) 553. Natalie Metzger (12/4/06) 554. Natalie Balkema (12/4/06) 555. Stephanie Yoder (12/4/06) - President Wagner is great, but this is a huge dissapointment for all of the
seniors. I think we deserve a guest speaker
556. Connie Chang (12/4/06) 557. Margaux Barnes (12/4/06) 558. Jessica Friedberg (12/4/06) 559. Niles Lingard (12/4/06) 560. Nick Lawson (12/4/06) - Is this for real? I can honestly say I'd rather see the cockmaster speak at our
graduation.
561. Arielle Gordon (12/4/06) 562. Melanie Kolkin (12/4/06) 563. Shairoz Sultan (12/4/06) 564. Thi Pham (12/4/06) - how cheap can Emory be? Get a real GUEST speaker!!!!
565. Tiffani Christopher (12/4/06) 566. Lauren Bernstein (12/4/06) 567. Jennifer Whitlock (12/4/06) 568. Brittany Rayburn (12/4/06) 569. carly stein (12/4/06) 570. Emmett Bankston (12/4/06) 571. Sai Sruthi Veerisetty (12/4/06) 572. Christopher Harbutt (12/4/06) 573. David Park (12/4/06) -

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574. Rachana Dixit (12/4/06) 575. Alex Fleet (12/4/06) 576. Jason Hardwick (12/4/06) 577. Matt Walker (12/4/06) 578. Ryan Gilmore (12/4/06) 579. James Jones (12/4/06) - If the Senior class pledges to never contribute to the Alumni fund without a
proper graduation ceremony, the administration will listen.
580. Megan Peterson (12/4/06) - I'm only a junior, but I think it's important that we don't put this new system
into place.
581. Eric Cohn (12/4/06) 582. Meredith LeBlanc (12/4/06) 583. Cara Lynch (12/4/06) 584. Cate Candland (12/4/06) 585. Alec Hartman (12/4/06) - I would like my tenure at Emory to be reflected by an appropriate and
important keynote speaker, I hope this petition convey's this.
586. Madison Busker (12/4/06) 587. Megan Ginter (12/4/06) - This is important?
588. Marcy Magid (12/4/06) 589. Jacqueline Rodriguez (12/4/06) 590. Katherine Goth (12/4/06) 591. Jane Hershman (12/4/06) 592. Julian Hua (12/4/06) 593. Rahul Gupta (12/4/06) 594. Whitney Cook (12/4/06) 595. Mike Kerfeld (12/4/06) - Conan O'Brien
596. Bill (12/4/06) 597. Katie Keefer (12/4/06) 598. Loron Benton (12/4/06) -

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599. Rayhan Chowdhury (12/4/06) 600. Finn Anderson (12/4/06) 601. Katie Ruedebusch (12/4/06) 602. Jennifer Cheng (12/4/06) 603. Amalia Jarvis (12/4/06) 604. Kelly S.R. (12/4/06) 605. Tim Balskus (12/4/06) 606. Brittany Dohmen (12/4/06) 607. amanda dechert (12/4/06) 608. Allen Chan (12/4/06) 609. Brittany Harvey (12/4/06) 610. Fiona Sites-Bowen (12/4/06) 611. Daniel Ji (12/4/06) 612. Esther Wong (12/4/06) 613. Catherine Andresen (12/4/06) 614. Kunal Tandon (12/4/06) 615. Jonathan Spradling (12/4/06) 616. Diane Wanner (12/4/06) 617. David Dvorkin (12/4/06) 618. Robert Conrad (12/4/06) 619. Caroline Marcum (12/4/06) 620. Tai Woltmann (12/4/06) 621. Adeola Hassan (12/4/06) 622. Laura Boyer (12/4/06) 623. Youhann Jokhi (12/4/06) 624. Justin Eaton (12/4/06) 625. Ashley Harden (12/4/06) -

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626. Viola Thomas (12/4/06) 627. Max Cornell (12/5/06) 628. Holly Howell (12/5/06) 629. Megan Rowell (12/5/06) 630. Ashish Ankola (12/5/06) 631. Cheryl Tan (12/5/06) 632. Leah Barlow (12/5/06) 633. Paul Perry Stewart (12/5/06) 634. Brent Jordan (12/5/06) 635. Laura Goins (12/5/06) 636. Susana Bardina (12/5/06) 637. Lauren LeWinter (12/5/06) 638. Amy Sheu (12/5/06) 639. Cassandra Young (12/5/06) 640. Matthew Seifert (12/5/06) 641. Stephen Yeh (12/5/06) 642. Sarah Coyle (12/5/06) 643. Imroz Hakim (12/5/06) 644. Meredith. Oldham (12/5/06) 645. Stephanie Lerner (12/5/06) 646. Diya Chaudhuri (12/5/06) 647. Jocelyn Erickson (12/5/06) 648. Ryan Goldberg (12/5/06) 649. Michael Currier (12/5/06) 650. Jennifer Macy (12/5/06) 651. Courtnie Jackson (12/5/06) - Having Wagner be the guest speaker takes away the whole grandeur of
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652. Devin Carey (12/5/06) 653. Christina Murdock (12/5/06) - What gets a school press at graduation time is an amazing speaker:
Emory spends millions and millions of dollars a year trying to make our school a big name "brand" and then
does this?
654. Andrew Michigan (12/5/06) 655. Laura Michelson (12/5/06) 656. Lauren Hochman (12/5/06) 657. Shivani Kamdar (12/5/06) 658. Jessica Schwitzer (12/5/06) 659. Chris Hanno (12/5/06) 660. Dylan Gordon (12/5/06) 661. Alicia Andrews (12/5/06) 662. Emily Smith (12/5/06) 663. David Becker (12/5/06) 664. Kelly Rahn (12/5/06) 665. Richard Babb (12/5/06) 666. Kwanhai Ng (12/5/06) 667. Jodi Tandet (12/5/06) 668. Jordan Lewis (12/5/06) 669. Mike Becker (12/5/06) 670. Kasey Chow (12/5/06) 671. Eszter Bardi (12/5/06) 672. Candace Giles (12/6/06) 673. Justin Ridgely (12/6/06) 674. Ernestina Nyarko (12/6/06) 675. A. Hassan Ahmed (12/6/06) 676. Andrew Dekle (12/6/06) 677. Laura Englander (12/6/06) -

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678. Angela Denny (12/6/06) 679. Sloane Klonsky (12/6/06) 680. Danielle Elias (12/6/06) 681. Robert Choi (12/6/06) 682. Ann Grossniklaus (12/6/06) 683. Emily Pope (12/6/06) 684. Judson Hermans (12/6/06) 685. Allison Keene (12/6/06) 686. Holly del Junco (12/6/06) 687. Kyle Valenti (12/6/06) 688. Bethlehem Mesfin (12/6/06) 689. Daniel Kim (12/6/06) 690. Randall Friedland (12/6/06) 691. Robert S. Stein (12/6/06) 692. Elizabeth Giltinan (12/6/06) 693. Courtney Rose (12/6/06) 694. Robert Carlton (12/6/06) 695. Mark Johnson (12/6/06) 696. Peter Lane (12/6/06) 697. Jason Fisk (12/6/06) 698. Adina David (12/6/06) 699. Anne Rushing (12/6/06) 700. Joann Seo (12/6/06) 701. Amit Shah (12/6/06) 702. Jinny Khanduja (12/6/06) 703. Chad Lee (12/6/06) 704. Catherine Folowoshele (12/6/06) - ummmmmm, we need to have someone famous or at _least_

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different speak at graduation! We see Wagner all the time!!!!

705. Dan Meyer (12/6/06) 706. Soh young Rhee (12/6/06) 707. Matthew Bresler (12/6/06) 708. Jon Kaplan (12/6/06) 709. Elizabeth Cohen (12/6/06) - so, Salman Rushdie is coming next semester, why doesn't he speak? that
would be cool.
710. Alison Lee (12/6/06) 711. Christal Hembree (12/6/06) 712. Katie Mullen (12/6/06) 713. shea poythress (12/6/06) - i support this petition for another speaker.
714. Megan Cloutier (12/6/06) 715. Jesse Aitken (12/6/06) 716. Erica Hodgdon (12/6/06) - Every year Emory has someone famous speak. Our class deserves a
prominent speaker as well.
717. Jon Hinrichs (12/7/06) 718. Matthew Hechinger (12/7/06) 719. Neal Robin (12/7/06) 720. Eric Gold (12/7/06) 721. Brianna Spann (12/7/06) 722. Ben Kramer-Eisenbud (12/7/06) 723. Kanwal Tajani (12/7/06) - petition for another speaker!
724. John Hull (12/7/06) 725. Philip Tizzani (12/7/06) 726. Eric Zellner (12/7/06) 727. Joe Palmer (12/7/06) 728. Margaret Ryan (12/7/06) 729. Margaret McGehee (12/7/06) -

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730. Rebecca Jean-Pierre (12/7/06) 731. Leah Schmidt (12/7/06) 732. Nomi Goheer (12/7/06) 733. Erin Murphy (12/7/06) 734. Sarah Hale (12/7/06) 735. Vanessa Gonzalez (12/7/06) 736. Meili Gault (12/8/06) 737. Paul Mangasarian (12/8/06) - Wagner?! Is that a joke? What a disappointing choice, Emory.
738. Heather B (12/8/06) 739. Katherine Rodby (12/8/06) - While I think President Wagner had done a great job, butmy entire family
will be at graduation, and this is Emory's one chance to show how amazing it can be and that the 40K a year
was worth it. If Emory wants to get its name out there, then bring in one of those big names so we will be
listed in the news along with all those other school who have Pres. Clinton and Bill Cosby. Pres. Wagner can
speak at class day.
740. Lawrence Morano (12/8/06) - I respect President Wagner, but what is he going to tell us that we already
do not know . He is as much a part of the Emory bubble world as we are. I want a real keynote speaker.
Someone who will give us something to think about and build upon in the years to come. Someone with an
outside perspective of this so-called great institution. Stop spending money on ridiculous statues and give us
a real speaker...and some more computers in the library!
741. Sahiti Karempudi (12/9/06) 742. MarcThalheim (12/9/06) 743. Adam Block (12/9/06) 744. Philip May (12/9/06) - President Wagner, while being highly respected, will not be a big enough draw for
Emory to get it's name out there and become the "destination university" it is striving to become.
745. Amanda Kirzner (12/9/06) 746. Christiana Rattazzi (12/9/06) 747. Anya Labell (12/9/06) 748. Hillary Hanson (12/9/06) - Having Pres. Wagner as the only speaker undermines the importance of
graduation day. The school obviously has all the money in the world, why not try to make it a more
memorable and inspirational day?
749. Rebecca Meisels (12/10/06) 750. Alice Hoang (12/10/06) -

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751. Katherine Hyland (12/10/06) 752. Sima Desai (12/10/06) 753. Sam Galgano (12/10/06) 754. Amy Smith (12/11/06) 755. Sunal Patel (12/11/06) 756. Kim Dean (12/11/06) 757. Lauren Felsenstein (12/11/06) 758. Cortney Crane (12/12/06) 759. Nicholas Hokanson (12/13/06) 760. Lindsay Pertz (12/14/06) - I respect President Wagner, and he is a great leader of our school, but as an
alum of Emory, I think it is totally disrespectful to not have an external speaker as well. It is an important part
of graduation and shows the pride and excellence we have in Emory compared to other universities. To not
have an amazing speaker is disrespectful our university and the network we create.
761. Kimberly Hathaway (12/15/06) 762. john smith (12/16/06) 763. Rachel Valente (12/18/06) 764. Chris Ullman (12/18/06) 765. ES (1/1/07) - lets get some shoes!
766. Kyle Y. (1/24/07) 767. Heather Sumpter (2/8/07) 768. Mihir Desu (3/5/07) 769. screamyguwain (1/4/08) - Hey, did you know I'm good at signing online petitions? I knew. BTW, who is
President Wagner?

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