Vice President and Middletown, Ohio, native JD Vance delivered remarks at Friday’s graduation ceremony for the United States Naval Academy’s Class of 2025.

News MIT bans class president who gave pro-Palestine speech from commencement Updated: May. 31, 2025, 10:05 a.m. | Published: May. 30, 2025, 12:28 p.m.

After Vemuri finished her speech, Sally Kornbluth, the university's president, tried to settle the crowd. “At MIT, we believe in freedom of expression.

According to the school, the student delivered a speech, which denounced M.I.T.’s ties to Israel, that had not been preapproved. By John Branch The 2025 class president of M.I.T. was barred from ...