Finally, we have two reasons to discuss Lost. First a warning: stop reading this if the show is still on your DVR, unwatched. In last night's season finale, Jack (in a flash forward/alternate universe/through the looking glass scene) sees an obituary in the newspaper and goes to a funeral home (stating he isn't family or a friend of the deceased). According to Lostpedia, the obituary Jack was reading said: "The body of Jo.. [unreadable] ..antham......

TV star Matthew Fox went to his alma mater today to give the Class Day speech at Columbia College. Fox, class of 1989, was a controversial speaker choice amongst the Columbia community, given that other Columbia University schools had, er, Nobel Laureate and former Treasury Secretary types speaking. Just Jared has a partial transcript of his remarks:“You may have an idea where you want to be in 20 years and some of you will get......

Congratulations to everyone graduating this month! As NYU's commencement was today, with speaker jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, we decided to list the many NYC commencement speakers, with help from The Chronicle of Higher Education (if we've missed any or gotten it wrong, let us know in comments): Barnard College: Anna Deveare Smith, playwright-actress CUNY Lehman College: Representative Charles Rangel CUNY Brooklyn College: Roberta S. Matthews, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Brooklyn......

A few weeks ago, Columbia students reeled from the news that Golden Globe-nominated, Saturn Award- and SAG Award-winning actor Matthew Fox was chosen as the class day speaker. Bwog wrote about Fox's second banana performance in We Are Marshal, which starred Matthew McConaughey: "Our Class Day speaker got upstaged by the smelliest-looking man in show business." Yesterday, the NY Times had an editorial that weighs in on Columbia's controversial decision to have the Lost......

Apparently, sexy Hollywood beefcake is what Columbia College is trying to promote at its Class Day this year! Last year, father-of-fellow-Columbia College-student Senator John McCain spoke, to wide protest. This year, Columbia College has selected Matthew Fox, star of Lost, to be the main speaker. Naturally, students are very divided about the news. One tells the Columbia Spectator, "I've never heard of this guy. The years before got a Pulitzer Prize-winner and a potential presidential......

- Eliot Spitzer wants all New Yorkers to have affordable, hi-speed Internet service, which is something we can get behind, though we're suspicious it's a ploy to attract the bloggers - When you live near a city sewage treatment center whose boilers are broken (they used to reduce odor), of course it's going to smell like "20 dogs took a dump in" your yard - The Duke lacrosse team captain, aka suspect #3, was......

Since Senator John McCain will be speaking at the Columbia College Class Day no matter what, students are planning on protesting him before the festivities. They are going to gather at 8:30AM on Tuesday, May 16, to protest and distribute literature, though we're not sure if they are going to sit out Class Day itself and boycott the ceremony from 10AM-12:30PM. But they have set up the website, mccainatcolumbia.com to discuss the issue, with sections......

Senator John McCain is facing a very tough crowd outside of the Beltway. Students and professors alike at the New School are upset over his selection as the commencement speaker. New School president, fellow Vietnam vet, and former McCain colleague Bob Kerrey selected McCain as a commencement speaker because he's "one of the world's most important leaders," as Kerrey explained to the Times. But a lot of the student and faculty population feels differently, as......

In the tradition of comedians going back and yukking it up at their alma maters, Jon Stewart gave the commencement speech at the College of William & Mary this past week. Some thoughts to the class of 2004:Please don’t be mad. I know we were supposed to bequeath to the next generation a world better than the one we were handed. So, sorry. I don’t know if you’ve been following the news lately, but it......

“Harvard University is one of the finest in the land. [Your] exuberance exudes a confident confidence of a bygone era" - Will Ferrell as George W. Bush at Harvard's Class Day Gothamist is intrigued by Will Ferrell's role as Class Day Speaker for Harvard yesterday. While he's undeniably tearless when it comes to getting the laugh, is it weird to have someone so unrelated to the school even though cooler than anyone else on......