{"id":127610,"date":"2024-04-17T06:12:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T06:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/miky-lee-to-deliver-usc-school-of-cinematic-arts-commencement-address-cancels-pro-palestinian-valedictorian-speech-over-safety\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T06:12:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T06:12:21","slug":"miky-lee-to-deliver-usc-school-of-cinematic-arts-commencement-address-cancels-pro-palestinian-valedictorian-speech-over-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/miky-lee-to-deliver-usc-school-of-cinematic-arts-commencement-address-cancels-pro-palestinian-valedictorian-speech-over-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Miky Lee To Deliver USC School Of Cinematic Arts Commencement Address; Cancels Pro-Palestinian Valedictorian Speech Over Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe USC<\/a> School of Cinematic Arts has introduced that Miky Lee<\/a> will ship the 20024 Commencement handle.<\/p>\n

\n\tJames Gray, director, author, and SCA alumnus, will obtain the Mary Pickford Alumni Award on the commencement ceremony on the Shrine Auditorium on Friday, May 10, 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMiky Lee is a true pioneer and ambassador of collaborative global filmmaking, and we are so happy to have her share her insight and expertise with our graduating students,\u201d Elizabeth M. Daley, Dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts<\/a>, mentioned in a press release. \u201cMiky works across borders, cultures, and genres, and champions the kinds of projects our students aspire to creating. We are so pleased she agreed to be this year\u2019s graduation speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSCA alumnus Jon M. Chu, who graduated in 2003 with a BFA in movie & tv manufacturing, will converse at this yr\u2019s primary, university-wide graduation ceremony at 8:30 a.m. at Alumni Park.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Commencement Speaker, Lee joins a current record of celebrated leisure figures together with Brian Grazier and Ron Howard, Matt Reeves, Ryan Coogler, Jon M. Chu, Paul Feig, Jim Gianopulos, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Donna Langley, Barry Meyer, Ron Meyer, Sumner Redstone, Jay Roach, Stacey Sher and Laura Ziskin.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Mary Pickford Alumni Award pays tribute to USC alumni whose achievements deliver particular distinction to the School and to the business. Previous recipients of the honour embrace Prentice Penny, Kevin Feige, William Fraker, Conrad L. Hall, Ray Harryhausen, Alan Ladd Jr., Jon Laudau, Michelle Manning, Walter Murch, Shonda Rhimes, Jay Roach, Gary Rydstrom, Stacey Sher, John Singleton, Lee Unkrich, Matthew Weiner, David L. Wolper, Brian Grazer, Robert Zemeckis, Laura Ziskin, Melissa Rosenberg, Susan Downey, Jennifer and Suzanne Todd, Amanda Silver, Leslie Iwerks, and final yr\u2019s recipient Tracy Oliver.<\/p>\n

\n\tUSC additionally confirmed that their 2024 valedictorian speech had been canceled after Muslim pupil Asna Tabassum was accused of being antisemitic.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe college cites security considerations over banning Tabassum from delivering her commencement speech.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhile this is disappointing, tradition must give way to safety,\u201d Provost Andrew Guzman mentioned in a assertion<\/a>. \u201cThis decision is not only necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students, but is consistent with the fundamental legal obligation \u2014 including the expectations of federal regulators \u2014 that universities act to protect students and keep our campus community safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGuzman continued, \u201cIt applies the same values and criteria that we have used in the past to guide our actions. In no way does it diminish the remarkable academic achievements of any student considered or selected for valedictorian. To be clear: this decision has nothing to do with freedom of speech. There is no free-speech entitlement to speak at a commencement. The issue here is how best to maintain campus security and safety, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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[ad_1] The USC School of Cinematic Arts has introduced that Miky Lee will ship the 20024 Commencement handle. James Gray, director, author, and SCA alumnus, will obtain the Mary Pickford Alumni Award on the commencement ceremony on the Shrine Auditorium on Friday, May 10, 2024. \u201cMiky Lee is a true pioneer and ambassador of collaborative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[654,762,764,761,763,758,561,757,765,768,760,767,759,766],"class_list":{"0":"post-127610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-address","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-cancels","11":"tag-cinematic","12":"tag-commencement","13":"tag-deliver","14":"tag-lee","15":"tag-miky","16":"tag-propalestinian","17":"tag-safety","18":"tag-school","19":"tag-speech","20":"tag-usc","21":"tag-valedictorian"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}