More news (with some emphasis added) from the university whose budget’s cut to the bone and only the essentials are left:
[F]ormer ?The Daily Show? correspondent and personality from VH1?s decade-themed variety series [Mo Rocca] accepted a $19,500 offer Friday to deliver UNC?s first Senior Class Address. … Bringing Rocca to campus was a three-month collaborative effort waged by senior class officers, the executive branch of student government and the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor.
The groups? work came to fruition with monetary aid through student fees, the Office of the Provost, the Division of Student Affairs and the Campus Y. …
Members of SACC, a group spearheaded by Student Body Vice President Alexa Kleysteuber, set the wheels in motion at their first meeting, noting that several seniors had expressed discontent about the Commencement speaker process.
