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...last year's Commencement, for example, students decorated their robes with flowers and ivy. Every TV camera crew got a shot of the student who wore silver tinsel on her mortarboard. Someone from Adams House had a guitar; his classmates sang as they filed into Memorial Church for Reverend Peter J. Gomes' benediction...
Rudenstine delivered the next speech, adding asudden air of levity to the service by removinghis mortarboard and dropping it unceremoniously ona ledge...
...HOORAY, hooray, soon it will be Commencement Day!" the bright-eyed Idealist inside me burst out the other day, radiant and eager, dancing with imaginary sheepskin and mortarboard in each hand...
...does not see anything funny about her college stint. "I did it in four years, and I worked hard," said the model-actress proudly. Growing a bit teary-eyed, she added, "I didn't set out to prove anything to anyone except myself." Looking smart in her black mortarboard and gown, Shields received a B.A. in French literature with honors. But just as she once vowed not to let anything "come between me and my Calvins," Shields never let French lit come between her and her career. Her busy schedule included magazine cover shoots, roles in three movies and birthday...
When Brian Weiss graduated from UCLA in 1968, he was portrayed in beard and mortarboard on the cover of TIME for a story that described the nation's college graduating class as "the most conscience-stricken, moralistic, and, perhaps, the most promising" in U.S. history. As an editor of UCLA's Daily Bruin, Weiss gained notoriety by writing a column calling the Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, "a liar." With the breathtaking cockiness of his class and era, Weiss breezily declared, "I can see myself as an excellent U.S. President...