Sex columnist Dan Savage concluded his three-day visit to campus with a live filming of a question-and-answer session with students in the Schwartz Center Wednesday night.

Ian Urbina, an investigative reporter for  The New York Times, spoke Tuesday about reporting on hydraulic fracturing and answered questions about the difficulty of tackling the controversial issue.

Following several incidents of sexual violence on campus, two filmmakers came to campus Wednesday to challenge prevailing conceptions of masculinity, male aggression and gender roles.

From the looks of it, you’d think the devil was invited to speak at the University of Notre Dame’s graduation commencement ceremony. Then again, maybe some people believe he is, though I bet even Rush Limbaugh would find this a bit extreme. For commencement and graduation, most universities invite a distinguished individual to address the graduating seniors in order to provide them with words of wisdom and advice for the future. Who better for the task than the President of the United States? I am therefore bewildered that President Obama’s scheduled speech has been met with such defiance and outcry.

Who is it? Have you found someone yet? When are you going to announce who the Convocation speaker is?

These are the questions that have surrounded me for almost a year during my tenure as the 2009 Convocation chair.

In the bars.

Around Statler.

When I’m standing at the restroom sink in the Straight.

I cannot avoid this constant nagging over the identity of the 2009 Convocation speaker. And it’s getting really annoying.

Well, friends. The time has come and I will be announcing the Convocation speaker in the short term. Long gone will be the days of me trying to spread rumors that the speaker is Kermit the Frog, former disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich or Matthew Fox of Lost. (Columbia actually had Fox two years ago. Boom. Roasted.)