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Cincinnati Enquirer
Kasich to UC grads: Make difference in someone's life
Written by Cliff Peale
Dec. 14, 2013

Ohio Gov. John Kasich had a simple message for University of Cincinnati graduates Saturday: Help others.

Fame, it’s fleeting. Power, it disappears,” Kasich told the crowd inside Fifth Third Arena. “You know what doesn’t? The way you engage in changing the world.

Deep down inside, know that you are making a difference in someone else’s life,” he added. “You’ll never fail if you follow that advice.”

Kasich’s speech was standard graduation fare, short on policy and long on self-deprecating jokes, entertaining stories of his childhood in Pennsylvania and exhortations to graduates to help make the world a better place. He included a story about how he talked his way into seeing Ohio State University’s president as a freshman, then leveraged that into a trip to the Oval Office to meet President Richard Nixon.

Universities all around the region held their fall semester graduations this week, including the College of Mount St. Joseph on Thursday, Miami University on Friday and Northern Kentucky University on Saturday. At NKU, 1,400 graduated, including summer grads. About 800 walked in the ceremony...

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