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title: "Phi Beta Kappa address, 'Keep in Touch'"
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date: '2010-06-23T10:30:08-04:00'
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permalink: /phi-beta-kappa-address-keep-in-touch/
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tags:
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- 'random thoughts'
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- technology
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As the 2009-10 president of Pomona College’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, I was supposed to deliver the address at our commencement weekend initiation ceremony. I accidentally double-booked myself, though, by agreeing to speak at a one-day conference at Dartmouth; somehow, I’d forgotten than the initiation ceremony was Friday evening, rather than Saturday evening. Needless to say, I felt awful when I suddenly realized what I’d done — and of course the realization came in the middle of the night, waking me up from a dead sleep.
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Anyhow, this is how I managed to get myself out of this goof: the first such presidential address delivered via video. Fortunately, the topic I’d planned worked well with the mediation. And now I get to share it with you.
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(Incidentally, the bad audio sync is semi-intentional; when I realized that the sound and image were off just a fraction, I figured hey, the YouTube aesthetic seems appropriate here.)
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<div align="center"><object height="300" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12797943&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"></param></object></div>
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