Breaking: Class Day Speaker to be Announced at 12:30 on Low Plaza

Head over to Low Plaza at 12:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, March 10, to find out who will speak to Columbia College seniors on Class Day.

There, the senior class council plans to announce its choice. Yesterday, Spectator reported that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, CC '73, Law '76, and University Trustee, was the top choice. According to the senior class council's Web site, other popular picks included author Paul Auster, CC '69, actress Maggie Gyllenhall CC ‘99, Art Garfunkel, CC '65, Washington Post editor Marcus Brauchli, CC '83, and, of course, his classmate and U.S. President Barack Obama. For more details, see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccsc/09grad.html.