Small College Nets Big Fish: First Lady To Speak

Source: NPR Posted By: post_123 5458 days ago

First lady Michelle Obama is heading to California this weekend to give her only college commencement speech this graduation season. Her destination: the University of California's newest campus, Merced, in the middle of the Central Valley.

Obama will give her speech on a temporary stage, surrounded by cow pastures, in the heart of California's conservative farm belt. The area is so rural that UC Merced's glimmering steel and glass research labs seem like a mirage on the horizon, just below the....

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