Sorry, I hate to do this, but this just agitates me. If this is not the right place to sound off then I apologize in advance.
It has recently been in the news that 278 Rabbis received Smicha at the Rabbinical college of America.
This is very misleading and a total PR stunt. (That's putting it nicely)
They invited guys who ALREADY got Smicha in the last FIVE years (that's right, FIVE years) to come to this event.
There are only 50 guys in the RCA Smicha program, and they are the ONLY ones who actually got Smicha, and they got Smicha WITH OR WITHOUT this ceremony.
I was one of the 280 invited, and I got my Smicha 5 years ago.
How they can blatantly lie is mind-boggling.