Cosby Leaves Grads Laughing, COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP)—It wasn't a traditional graduation ad dress, but then Bill Cosby isn’t your typical commencement speaker. The comedian and television star turned the University of Maryland’s graduation ceremony into something approximating a comedy club performance. He had the approximately 3,800 graduates of the College Park campus laughing and applauding, even when he touched on serious topics such as jobs. Cosby joked that the graduates should find a lawyer and sue the university for leaving them unpre pared for the type of jobs most available in the current market. “There are no courses in valet parking, waitressing and grinding coffee," he said. "You people are not prepared. You are well-educated and you look cute, but that’s not going to do it," he said. But Cosby also handed out some serious advice during his generally lighthearted address. warned graduates that they enter the job market at a difficult time, but said that "I want, five years from now, to see something from the class of 1992." Cosby also decried a society that he said seems to want to make hu man beings into machines. "I want you to practice some thing that is going out of style, and that is being a human being to another human being,” he said. "You can work at treating hu man beings with the values that they have, made by God,” Cosby said. The College Park campus handed out about 218 doctoral de grees, 686 master’s degrees and about 2,900 undergraduate de grees. i It also awarded honorary doctor ates to Cosby, U.S. Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin and A. James Clark, founder of one of the nation’s largest general contract ing firms. But Cosby was clearly the star of the day. Graduates and guests cheered him as the procession of dignitar ies made its way to the platform. They cheered again when he got his honorary degree, then settled back to enjoy his offbeat com mencement address. William E. Kirwan, president of the College Park campus, praised Cosby as “a professional enter tainer in the most elevated sense of the word* who has used his tal ents to try to bring people to gether. “ "The Cosby Show’ went beyond entertainment to teach us... we are more alike than we are differ ent,’ he said. Cosby told the graduates that they now face expectations as they leave college. “Your parents want you out of the house. Your younger siblings want you out of the house. They’ve gotten used to the extra space,” he said. That light tone contrasted with much of the rest of the ceremony. Jeffrey Jones, a senior who spoke for the class of 1992, criti EFNEP ASSISTANT - Mary Jane Chedester received one of the nine Distinguished Service Awards presented AlAAAuJda Lamm k|Aa|L AamaWmA flMAMAMAAluA Stamm from tna vtonn uaronna uooperative extension Service at a state EFNEP meeting held May 12-14 in Raleigh. Presenting the award are Dr. Durward Bateman, dean of the Cedege of Agriculture and Life Sciences, NCSU, left, and Dr. Robert Wells, director of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. ^o32?*?JfalPin e9e & f ring lr*<*e School c osts cizea tne Digotry ana intolerance found on campus and in society to day. ‘Tear of our own differences still plagues us,” Jones said. Donald «. Dangenoerg, lor rf the University of Maryland system, spoke of the harmful ef fects of the recession on higher education. new reality. It made ua realise if higher education ie to survive, it needs to reorder its priorities,’’ Langenberg said. 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"Before Project Choice, I wasn’t going to college,” said Romero Es parza, 18, the first member of his family to finish high school. Now he’s looking forward to pur suing undergraduate studies in art. Kapffman, the billionaire founder of Marion Laboratories, Inc., and the owner of the Kansas City Royals, started Project Choice in 1988 to help students at the high school from which he gradu ated about 60 years ago. The first class to participate in the program will graduate June 2. Students have been accepted by more than 20 colleges, including the California Maritime Academy, St. Louis University and Howard Uni varsity in Washington, D.C. Moat of the schools are in Mis souri or Kansas. Students must obtain a waiver from Project Choice before it will pay for a school outside Missouri. But many students like Esparza an still undecided about which college to attend. Project Choice counselors encourage students to pick smaller schools when they can gat special education. “Our overriding concern is that schools not take our kids and not help them succeed," said Lynn Ro gers, Project Choice’s post-secon dary-education specialist.