Valedictorian: “I have successfully shown that I was the best slave.”

This week, Indiana University students finish up their exams. On May 3rd, they graduate, thousands upon thousands of them, more than half facing unemployment and saddled with massive, lifelong debt. Here’s an eye-opening list of facts:

http://occupystudentdebt.com/studentdebtfacts

Valedictory speeches will float out of mouths into audiences of proud parents, the best of them going viral. As an old valedictorian myself (class of 1960) — I knew how to memorize and could “psych out” my teachers — I wish I had been the one to give this speech: