At the risk of sounding like raving conspiracy theorists, we have to ask, is the cast of Lost cursed? First, Michelle Rodriguez gets busted with a DUI. Then Evangeline Lily and Dominic Monaghan’s piece of Hawaiian paradise burns to the ground. And now this: Columbia students publicly humiliate Matthew Fox by calling him too irrelevant to speak at the Columbia College Class Day. Ouch.

The 40-year-old actor (and alum) was chosen to speak because of his “achievements as an actor, his commitment to Columbia, and his ability to represent the diverse group of students who graduate from Columbia,” according to class president, David Chait.

But The Columbia Spectator reports that other students—who also protested Senator John McCain’s speech last year because he voted in favor of the Iraq war—were upset after today’s announcement. One student was overheard saying, “They obviously couldn’t find anybody. He must have been 29th on the list.”

Another one muttered, “The years before got a Pulitzer Prize-winner and a potential presidential candidate. I suppose that after what happened last year, they wanted someone less controversial.”

Fox may want to consider remaining lost for this one. We’d hate to see what a bunch of angry Ivy Leaguers could do to a simple Hollywood star when they don’t get their way.

[Us Weekly]