Apparently the Ohio State president is on a bitcoin mining company board and invited an OSU alumna who hawked bitcoin to give the commencement speech. You can’t make this shit up!
“After the singalong, Mr Pan began talking about investment, which eventually led to him recommending Bitcoin as a "very misunderstood asset class," earning audible boos and laughs from the crowd” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ohio-state-graduation-commencement-speaker-b2542310.html
Sing-a-longs, crypto-shilling, and written on Ayahuasca: Ohio State’s commencement speech gone wrong

Chris Pan’s Ohio State University speech was a bizarre cocktail of sing-a-longs, crypto-shilling, and jewelry-slinging that left many in the audience stunned, Graig Graziosi reports.

The Independent
@TeamMidwest Thank you for sharing a story about higher education dysfunction that is hilarious and involves zero police violence. I needed that.