Harvard has J.K. Rowling; Penn has … Emeril? That seemed like it might be the case early this morning as DP editors received an e-mail with a dubious flyer announcing celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse as the 2008 Commencement speaker.
However, even though IvyGate reported it, you won’t see a story with that news in today’s DP. When we hear about important events, we make sure the news is credible and seek confirmation before rushing to print. In this case, our sole source was an amateur-looking flyer, containing a typo and the same picture of Emeril that’s on his Wikipedia page. Not what you’d expect for a major University announcement.
Receiving the e-mail at 1 a.m., it was clear we weren’t going to reach University officials before sending the paper to print. Rather than take our chances with a late-night e-mail, we went home for the night, with plans to properly confirm today.
So check back later, because we’ll be sure to update dailypennsylvanian.com with any — confirmed — news about this year’s Commencement speaker.
To see the flyer as we received it, click here.
Tags: commencement, Emeril
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January 28th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
uhhh c’mon n00bs. This post is embarassing on so many levels.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Please stop this. Now.
March 5th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I don’t get why you’re so anti-ITN. This kind of stuff is interesting on multiple levels, especially to people who are, I don’t know, editors?
You have the option to not navigate to this page, you know.