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MIT's 2025 class president and her family were banned from the university's graduation ceremony after she spoke against the university's complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinian people.
But people, a commencement speaker is not supposed to confirm your pre-existing ideas. A graduation speech—if you’re lucky—will give you something new to think about. Now, it’s true that too many of ...
Fast Forward MIT disciplines student commencement speaker who condemned school’s ties to Israel as ‘complicit in genocide’ Megha Vemuri was at least the third student commencement speaker at ...
While controversy over commencement speakers has made headlines, it's not entirely new. Back in 1990, some Wellesley College students protested their school's decision to invite Barbara Bush to ...
MIT's 2025 class president and her family were banned from the university's graduation ceremony after she spoke against the university's complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinian people.