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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Amber Raiken

Graduates shocked after commencement speaker reveals their loans are paid off during speech

A group of North Carolina college graduates was stunned to learn that their commencement speaker was paying off their senior year student loans.

Anil Kochhar took the stage Friday during the Wilson College of Textiles at North Carolina State University’s commencement, when more than 170 students earned their bachelor’s degrees, and 26 received their master’s, according to Axios Raleigh. Kochhar’s father, Prakash Chand Kochhar, received his bachelor’s and master’s from the college in the Fifties.

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