Sure, graduation is usually a time for celebration, but not everything always goes according to plan. What about the snafus, protests and no-shows..? We've got 'em for you right here.
- Christian Dior designer John Galliano broke some fashionista hearts at Savannah College of Art and Design when he called in sick to their graduation ceremony at the 11th hour. Galliano was set to receive the André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award. His spokesperson assured students that the iconic designer wasn't just flaking to hang out at Butter, and that he had a 104 fever.
- Washington University literally turned its back on honorary-degree-recipient, conservative activist and longtime enemy of feminists everywhere, Phyllis Schlafly. Students and professors donned white armbands in solidarity and turned their backs to Schlafly when she received the honor. For her part, the ever-mature Schlafly complained of students and professors "raining on [her] parade" and called them "a bunch of losers." She thoughtfully added some advice: "Get a life. Move on. Try to do something with your life." This from a woman who advocates full-time-wife-and-motherhood! Um, yikes.
- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was met with a raucous group of student protesters at Yale's commencement yesterday afternoon. Most of the students object to Blair's blind support of the war in Iraq; about a dozen graduating seniors stood and held up "No War/Peace Now" signs as Blair spoke. (It's probably best that his speech focused on nostalgia for his youth over defending his military operations.) But it's going to take a hell of a lot more than that to keep Tony Blair from coming back to teach his class at Yale for the 2008-2009 school year. I guess that public sentiment being what it is across the pond, he couldn't land a gig in Britain...
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Andre Leon Talley, Vogue editor-at-large, is the commencement speaker for the college's graduation ceremonies on May 31.
You can learn more about Galliano and the SCAD Fashion Show at http://www.scad.edu/about/news/topstories/2008/john-galliano.cfm. You can learn more about Talley as the college's commencement speaker at http://www.scad.edu/about/news/topstories/2008/050508.cfm. Posted 05/27/2008 3:47 PMReply