Over the past academic year, there has been an explosion of new or renewed campus activities, pop culture phenomena, tech trends, generational shifts, and social movements started by or significantly impacting students. Most can be summed up in a single word.

When I asked my Facebook friends and followers about their memories, several were able to name the speaker but few could recall the message.

On Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke at a Georgetown University award ceremony and was heckled by an antiabortion activist. On Sunday, George Washington University presented an honorary degree to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, as about 100 Latinos protested.

Theon O’Connor, a senior at Georgetown University, sprang from the sedan that was idling in a neighborhood near campus and bounded toward students’ homes.

“He said, ‘Why don’t you come up on the stage and play with us?’ ” Knapp recounted Friday morning, the day after Brown died at the age of 75.

On Friday afternoon, the fake president tweeted about undergoing surgery and then sent out a link to a column in the student newspaper that is headlined, “I am Fake Wallace Loh: And so can you!”