Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Social Network, A Few Good Men, and The West Wing, returned to his alma mater Syracuse University to address the Class of 2012. After sharing a story about a CBS executive in 1970 who declared four things would never appear on television — a divorced person, a Jewish person, a person living in New York City, and a man with a mustache — only for every show by 1980 to feature exactly those things, Sorkin urged graduates to think independently and not be deterred by conventional wisdom or the fear of being wrong.