The selection process at Scripps is complicated by the fact that students, not the administration, are tasked with picking their commencement speaker. Perhaps the most nerve-racking duty of a senior class president at Scripps College in Claremont is securing a speaker for commencement. An editorial in the Daily Bruin dismissed Franco as not "as esteemed as a commencement speaker of UCLA's caliber should be." The search for commencement speakers who will entertain and inspire without offending students' notions of political correctness has become increasingly fraught on campuses. "It's a lose-lose for colleges," said attorney Ari Cohn of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, who tracks the disinvitation of commencement speakers.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 09, 2016 04:26 UTC