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Petition Asks University Of Houston To Reconsider Choice Of Speakers For Student Event
Nearly 300 students, alumni and others have signed a petition to disinvite two speakers from the University of Houston’s Honors College’s fall convocation event.
Executive advisor to the chairman of Exxon Mobil April Feick, who graduated from UH in 1997, is set to give the keynote speech at Thursday’s event.
UH System Board of Regents member Gerald McElvy, who previously worked at Exxon Mobil for 33 years, will be the introductory speaker.
When recent UH graduate Katherine Fischer heard that, she decided to start a petition for the university to disinvite both speakers.
Read more: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2019/08/26/344024/petition-asks-university-of-houston-to-reconsider-choice-of-speakers-for-student-event/