Septuagenarian “New Journalist” to address grads

All right, so you may not have attended “Mr. Jefferson’s University” as an undergrad. Maybe you don’t have a “degree,” or a “job,” but that doesn’t mean you can’t come out and join the celebration during Finals Weekend 2006. And why not show a little love for the grads? It’s not like this is Durham or something.
But forget standing around the Academical Village, wrestling your way through a crowd to watch Missy, Muffy and Carter T. Lawnington receive their diplomas on Sunday, May 21. You’d have much more fun standing around the Academical Village, wrestling your way through a crowd to watch author and journalist Tom Wolfe address the Class of 2006 at Valedictory Exercises on Saturday, May 20, at 11am on the Lawn.
Anyone can come and watch, but seating is given first to graduates and ticket holders, so space will be limited. Not that you should let that keep you away, of course. Wolfe famously helped establish New Journalism and has coined a word or two in his day—but every horny undergrad in attendance will be tuned in to the man who authored Hooking Up in 2001 and I Am Charlotte Simmons in 2004. Both pieces investigate the hyper-charged libidos of the modern American college campus, and nothing says “graduation night final fling” like a 76-year-old in a white suit.
Radical chic, indeed.—Steven Schiff