Each year when I see the list of Commencement Speakers ever expand into the most nonsensical choices I recall MIT in 1971. There was none. Commencement was for those being awarded degrees and frankly the attitude was just keep Mom and Dad happy then get lunch.
Today we have a plethora of actors, political figures on the campaign trail, overpaid academic Commissars and their political nonsense. Perhaps today's woke students find this entertaining and justified but perhaps they should just hand out degrees and get lunch!