re: Tulane Students Demand Hoda Kotb Be Dropped As Speaker

Looking through the list of past speakers...she's not exactly the Dalai Lama, Justice Powell, Bill Clinton or George Bush, but is at least as good as Ellen or Wynton Marsalis:

Wynton Marsalis (2014 remarks)
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (2013 remarks)
Lisa Jackson (2012 remarks)
Thomas Friedman (2011 remarks)
Anderson Cooper (2010 remarks)
Ellen DeGeneres (2009 remarks)
James Carville and Mary Matalin (2008 remarks)
Brian Williams (2007 remarks)
President George H. W. Bush (2006 remarks)
President William J. Clinton (2006 remarks)
Michael Lewis (2005 remarks)
John Breaux (2004)
David Halberstam (2003 remarks)
William Safire (2002)
Marian Wright Edleman (2001 remarks)
Walter Isaacson (2000 remarks)
Cokie Roberts
Janet Reno
Art Buchwald
Vernon Jordan
Ralph Nader
Andrew Young
Tom Brokaw
Norman Cousins
Dr. Michael DeBakey
Thomas Foley
Lewis Powell
Hon. Corinne "Lindy" Boggs