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...University conferred 6,847 degrees at its 348th Commencement, including eight honorary degrees given to luminaries including Commencement Speaker and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, Economist Kenneth J. Arrow and Herbert Block, a noted political cartoonist...
...Alan E. Wirzbicki '01, an unemployed history and literature concentrator in Eliot House, is associate editorial chair of The Crimson...
...idle time at my job as a short-order cook on a ferry in Long Island Sound, enough to mull over the stories I had heard of people coming to college and changing their names. I didn't have a problem with the sound of my name, Alan, and I've never been crazy about my middle name, Eric. After running the choices by some of my co-workers on the ferry, I briefly considered ditching the names on my birth certificate entirely, and switching to Rambo or Fabio or something I thought might be a little more fitting...
...about me. The deeper elements of my life that I wanted to leave behind--forgive me if I don't go into too much detail here--would take a hell of a lot more work than filling out a form differently and I knew it. If changing names from Alan to Eric was the only thing I could change about myself that fall, it would be pretty pathetic indeed. Still, switching names was going to be emblematic of the new me, a constant reminder to myself that I wasn't who I used...
...Alan E. Wirzbicki '01 is the associate editorial chair and editorial comp director of The Crimson...