Results tagged “graduation”

• Controversy in Evergeen Park where parents of Evergreen Park Community High School students are alleging they were barred from entering the school's graduation ceremony.
• Gang member Steve Bryant was sentenced to 85 years for the 2006 murder of marine Ricardo Martinez.
• Cook County Public Defender Abishi Cunningham claims his office is out of money to defend death penalty cases.

It being graduation season, the Sun-Times has churned up a nice little human-interest piece about how graduation name readers must inevitably pronounce some very difficult last names. High school graduation name readers may have the luxury of practicing pronunciation beforehand, but we just attended our sister’s college graduation ceremony featuring thousands of students. The university seemed to have a pretty air-tight system though: student hands card to announcer with name spelled out phonetically, announcer reads out name, student marches across stage, clappaclappaclappa.

The controversial Northwestern Law School alum Jerry Springer spoke to the graduating law school class last night. He gave a speech that lasted about 15 minutes, and quoted his mother, Winston Churchill, and Socrates. The 1968 graduate told the Class of 2008: