Debt-laden graduates, affluent alumni, birds-of-a-feather faculty and tuition-burdened parents: I’m sorry.

I’m sorry that I won’t be sucking up to you with the same old graduation platitudes. You should have invited Oprah: “How do you know when you’re doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so.” Or Michael Dell: “The key is to listen to your heart and let it carry you in the direction of your dreams.” Or Hillary Clinton: “Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.”

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