Mexican graduating classes choose a padrino, a godfather, for their generation. At the University of Guadalajara, one class chose the rector general, Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí. At the ceremony he told them: “Agradezco que me concedieran el honor de estar aquí con ustedes y elegirme como su padrino” (I thank you for granting me the honor of being here with you and choosing me as your godfather).