The University has announced that Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York (as if our NYC inferiority complex wasn’t apparent enough) will be the 2008 commencement speaker. Considering that Jodie Foster spoke two years ago, this is very good news.
But not so fast.
This the same Michael Bloomberg who, despite numerous reports and signs to the contrary, has consistently denied that he will be running for President as an independent candidate. Could we get stood up?
Much like the nationwide speaking tour that fanned the flames of his rumored White House aspirations, Bloomberg has begun speaking around Penn’s campus. In his first scheduled stop, he addressed several hot-button issues, “The dining hall employees are bitches. The high-rise elevators are too slow. Most importantly, there are tremendous sexual inequities, with Wharton and Engineering students getting figuratively, not literally, screwed.”
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