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Comedian ADAM SANDLER was a surprise guest speaker at the graduation ceremony of his old high school in Manchester, N.H. Sandler, whose nephew was a class valedictorian, filled in for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who canceled because the date changed--or as Sandler put it, because he came down with "a wicked bad case of a fake tummy ache." Sandler himself was never a valedictorian. "I came very close," he said, "but was narrowly beaten by 622 other students...
Blair Hornstine, the high school senior who attracted national attention when she sued to become sole valedictorian at her school, violated her local newspaper’s code of ethics in five stories she wrote for them, according to a correction run yesterday in the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill...
Hornstine, who sued the Moorestown, N.J. school system to ensure she graduated as her high school’s sole valedictorian, could potentially find her acceptance at Harvard withdrawn. It is not the first problem that Hornstine has encountered at Harvard: after news of her $2.7 million lawsuit came to light, more than 550 students signed an online petition asking that her admission offer be rescinded...
...effort by some undergraduates to press the College to rescind its offer of admission to Blair Hornstine seems to display the same level of meanspiritedness. Certainly people can disapprove of Hornstine’s suit against her school district to be her school’s sole valedictorian, but I do not understand the harm of letting her actions pass, other than a missed chance at vindictiveness
Rumors that some students were planning to disrupt Hornstine’s valedictorian speech precipitated the meeting...