Milk
star James Franco has been selected as the speaker for
the upcoming College of Letters and Sciences
commencement ceremony at the University of California, Los
Angeles. But some UCLA students think the 30-year-old actor is
not qualified to offer advice to graduates entering the real
world.
Franco received an
undergraduate degree in English from UCLA in 2008, and
is now studying filmmaking at Columbia University in
New York, where a photographer recently caught him sleeping
during a lecture.
But it's his youth
and the fact that he only received his bachelor's
degree last year that has upset the UCLA
students, who have launched the Facebook group "UCLA
Students Against James Franco as Commencement
Speaker."
The group, boasting 270
members at press time, states, "Clearly, this is
ridiculous. Anyone who has been in his classes knows he is an
average student." They also say Franco lacks "the
wisdom and perspective such a speaker is meant to provide the
graduates."