Reddit co-founder to speak at virtual Commencement
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article covers Alexis Ohanian’s selection as speaker for Johns Hopkins’ virtual 2020 Commencement.
- The News-Letter reported that Ohanian, Reddit’s co-founder and executive chairman, will speak on May 21; a university media representative said he was chosen to engage graduates across all nine academic divisions.
- The paper reported that Senior Class President Pavan Patel said he and the Student Government Association’s Senior Class Council were delighted, citing Ohanian’s entrepreneurship work and advocacy for paid family leave.
- The article adds that senior Varun Kedia said Ohanian’s technology and investment experience could offer wisdom to future engineers, while Kedia also said the loss of an in-person final goodbye was disappointing.
- The reporter writes that the university plans two replacement in-person Commencements for the class of 2020, in December 2020 and May 2021, while the virtual event will include student memories, performances and graduates’ names with their degrees, majors and schools.
- According to the article, Patel said the Senior Class Council worked with university offices to support the virtual ceremony, and the university said students, faculty and alumni may nominate future speakers from August to October before a review by President Ronald J. Daniels and a committee.