Senior class council near final choice for speaker - Kofi Annan, Queen Noor were among names on original list
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 council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports on the senior class council’s search for a commencement speaker.
- The News-Letter reported that the council was close to choosing a speaker and planned to announce its selection the following week.
- The paper reported that the original candidates included Queen Noor of Jordan, Kofi Annan and Alan Greenspan, chosen for their global and humanitarian backgrounds.
- The article says those candidates were dropped, while Natasha Singh said the unnamed final candidate was not on the original list.
- The reporter writes that Hopkins does not pay commencement speakers, which council members said limits the candidate pool; Kristina Das said they wanted a speaker their classmates wanted.
- The article adds that the junior class had already started searching for its 2009 commencement speaker.