This is all to say the vibe on campus seems bad, and for some reason only the University of Maryland understood how to combat that: Bring in the Muppets.,On Thursday, Kermit the Frog will deliver the commencement speech at the alma mater of Jim Henson,

Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland in 1960. A home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet from one of his mother’s coats and a ping-pong ball cut in half, according to a statement from the university. Henson died in 1990.