President Obama will be giving the commencement address at Arizona State University today amid triple-digit temperatures — and the security involved with the event likely will make students even hotter under the collar.

The school made news earlier this year when it was reported it wouldn’t give Obama an honorary degree, like it does all its other commencement speakers. Well, Obama obviously doesn’t mind too much — he’s still going. Approximately 71,000 people are expected at the outdoor event, which will be concluded with rocker Alice Cooper and a fireworks display. Because of tight security, students have to stay outside as long as six hours waiting to get into Sun Devil Stadium, and wait inside for Obama to speak, reports The Arizona Daily Star. And no water bottles will be allowed in the stadium — after all, they could be used as projectiles. 

The University of Notre Dame is next on Obama’s list for graduation stops. He speaks there Sunday, and there will be protests aplenty from Catholics opposing Obama’s pro-choice stance on abortion. Notre Dame will allow a group of seniors to hold a prayer demonstration, organized by ND Response, on the grounds that day.

"In defense of the unborn, we wish to express our deepest opposition to Reverend John I. Jenkins, CSC’s invitation of President Barack Obama to be the University of Notre Dame’s principal commencement speaker and the recipient of an honorary degree," the group states on its website.

Even though anti-abortion groups like Operation Rescue have tried to whip Notre Dame into a frenzy, the White House says that’s not representative of how most on campus feel about the president.

School President Father John Jenkins wrote a letter to the 2009 graduating class, commending most for being respectful of Obama, reports PoliticsDaily. Jenkins says in the letter that the invitation to Obama was not "a political statement or an endorsement of policy."