Dedication and discipline are the keys to success in the professional world, McDonald’s CEO and Vice Chairman James Skinner said to students in a lecture in the Leavey Program Room yesterday afternoon.

“You must be all the way in, or all the way out,” he said.

Americans must work with Middle Eastern countries instead of against them, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) implored of a crowded Riggs Library during a speech yesterday afternoon.

“Now is one of those defining moments,” he said. “We can either drift toward danger or build a global community.”