UOP has announced former Mexico President Vicente Fox as this year's commencement speaker. That's certain to generate talk locally, if not nationally.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:26 pm
by Chizzang
SuperHornet wrote:UOP has announced former Mexico President Vicente Fox as this year's commencement speaker. That's certain to generate talk locally, if not nationally.
What is UOP..?
and why would Vicente Fox be controversial
He's a glorified Lap Dog...
and great friends with George Bush and Karl Rove and the whole gang...
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:59 pm
by SuperHornet
Chizzang wrote:
SuperHornet wrote:UOP has announced former Mexico President Vicente Fox as this year's commencement speaker. That's certain to generate talk locally, if not nationally.
What is UOP..?
and why would Vicente Fox be controversial
He's a glorified Lap Dog...
and great friends with George Bush and Karl Rove and the whole gang...
I guess Chizzy doesn't pay attention....
University of the Pacific has selected a speaker that's bound to p!$$ off libs nationwide....
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:06 pm
by Skjellyfetti
SuperHornet wrote:
University of the Pacific has selected a speaker that's bound to p!$$ off libs nationwide....
doubtful. i don't think many people give a shit who speaks and University of the Pacific's commencement.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:07 pm
by MrTitleist
That and he's got to be better at speaking at commencements than he is at running a country.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:08 pm
by TwinTownBisonFan
Skjellyfetti wrote:
SuperHornet wrote:
University of the Pacific has selected a speaker that's bound to p!$$ off libs nationwide....
doubtful. i don't think many people give a shit about the University of the Pacific
fify.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:11 pm
by 93henfan
This is a story?
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:24 pm
by Grizalltheway
93henfan wrote:This is a story?
UOP is ALWAYS relevant. Kapish?
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:02 pm
by TwinTownBisonFan
Grizalltheway wrote:
93henfan wrote:This is a story?
UOP is ALWAYS relevant. Kapish?
if vicente fox were a female pole vaulter... this would have brought down the board with how big the news was...
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:24 pm
by Chizzang
retract...
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:25 pm
by Chizzang
Chizzang wrote:
SuperHornet wrote:
I guess Chizzy doesn't pay attention....
University of the Pacific has selected a speaker that's bound to p!$$ off libs nationwide....
Um...
A few things here Cheese Dip
First: Vicente Fox is about as irrelevant as they get
Second: The University of Pacific, which to this point in my life I'd never even heard of is not exactly the bastion of Political dissent and global critical discourse...
I believe you are dramatically over stating the importance of this event and that speaker at that location
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:41 pm
by kalm
Meh, Pacific University's "Tom McCall Forum" has more impressive speakers:
Created in 1982 by the students and faculty of Pacific University's Politics and Law Forum, the Tom McCall Forum has become the premier public affairs event in the Northwest, drawing national political figures each year to Portland for a spirited debate between a liberal and a conservative of national interest. Previous debaters have included Pat Buchanan, Tom Daschle, Howard Dean, Richard Perle, Molly Ivins, William Kristol, Bill Bradley, David Gergen, Ralph Nader, Newt Gingrich, Ralph Reed, Alan Dershowitz, James Carville, Mary Matalin, William Safire, John Sununu, Pierre Salinger, Robert Bork, Jesse Jackson, Mario Cuomo, and Dan Quayle.
PUO is how they lay it out on their own website - not - UOP
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:15 pm
by SuperHornet
Kalm just fell into the trap.
Pacific University ≠ University of the Pacific.
UOP is a D-I AAA school in Stockton, CA with a long history of football. The mascot is the Tigers. UOP is famous for jazz musician Dave Brubeck, football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, and football players-turned-coaches Eddie LeBaron, Pete Carroll, Tom Flores, and Hue Jackson (the current HC of the Oakland Raiders). Running back Dick Bass and Raiders Specila Teams Coordinator John Fassel also played for UOP. Academically, UOP has well-known pharmacy, engineering and business schools on the main Stockton campus, as well as a good dental school (SF campus) and law school (Sacramento campus). Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is a Constitutional Law professor at UOP's McGeorge School of Law.
Pacific University is a D-III school in Forest Grove, OR that just revived football. The mascot is the Boxers.
Pacific U has a history of getting congratulatory calls when UOP makes the D-I NCAA Tournament for boys hoops. UOP recently got congratulatory calls when Pacific U started football.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:30 pm
by Grizalltheway
kalm and cleets both get pwned by SH...yikes.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:05 pm
by Grizo406
Grizalltheway wrote:kalm and cleets both get pwned by SH...yikes.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:15 pm
by kalm
SuperHornet wrote:Kalm just fell into the trap.
Pacific University ≠ University of the Pacific.
UOP is a D-I AAA school in Stockton, CA with a long history of football. The mascot is the Tigers. UOP is famous for jazz musician Dave Brubeck, football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, and football players-turned-coaches Eddie LeBaron, Pete Carroll, Tom Flores, and Hue Jackson (the current HC of the Oakland Raiders). Running back Dick Bass and Raiders Specila Teams Coordinator John Fassel also played for UOP. Academically, UOP has well-known pharmacy, engineering and business schools on the main Stockton campus, as well as a good dental school (SF campus) and law school (Sacramento campus). Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is a Constitutional Law professor at UOP's McGeorge School of Law.
Pacific University is a D-III school in Forest Grove, OR that just revived football. The mascot is the Boxers.
Pacific U has a history of getting congratulatory calls when UOP makes the D-I NCAA Tournament for boys hoops. UOP recently got congratulatory calls when Pacific U started football.
I can't speak for Cleets, but what makes you think I didn't know the difference? You were discussing guest speakers. Pacific U's list trumps Fox.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:18 am
by andy7171
Grizalltheway wrote:kalm and cleets both get pwned by SH...yikes.
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:41 am
by dbackjon
to avoid further confusion, please use the Stockton's school's first name, California Wesleyan.
That is all
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:36 pm
by travelinman67
Grizalltheway wrote:
93henfan wrote:This is a story?
UOP is ALWAYS relevant. Kapish?
Did you mean, "capice"?
Or is "Kapish" another of your Neo-nazi words meaning, "Jews make good soap".
Re: UOP Names Controversial Commencement Speaker
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:41 pm
by dbackjon
travelinman67 wrote:
Grizalltheway wrote:
UOP is ALWAYS relevant. Kapish?
Did you mean, "capice"?
Or is "Kapish" another of your Neo-nazi words meaning, "Jews make good soap".
