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
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Seventy percent of this year’s
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