- KU awards highest honor
- Distinguished teaching award
winners named
- Commencement simulcast planned
- Schedule of events
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- More than 4,000 students are expected to participate Sunday,
May 21, in KU's 128th commencement exercises. Members of the
class of 2000 will make the long-awaited march down Mount Oread
and into Memorial Stadium, a tradition at KU since 1907. The
"walk down the hill" began when faculty and graduates
walked from old Fraser Hall to the newly built Robinson Gymnasium
(where Wescoe Hall is now located). The commencement procession
moved in 1924 when Memorial Stadium was completed.
Graduates will assemble along Memorial Drive at 2 p.m. The procession
will start at 2:30 p.m., and the commencement program at about
3:30 p.m. Memorial Drive will be closed to traffic all day Sunday.
This year's graduating class numbers approximately 5,300. That
total includes about 2,000 who received degrees last summer and
fall and about 3,300 who are candidates for degrees this month.
In 1999, 5,780 students graduated from KU's Lawrence campus and
the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Of all degrees conferred,
58 percent were bachelor's degrees, 26 percent were master's
degrees, and 16 percent were doctorates and first professional
degrees and certificates in medicine, law and pharmacy.
Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway will offer remarks and confer degrees.
Commencement will be broadcast on TV and the Internet courtesy
of the William Allen White School of Journalism, campus television
station KUJH and the KU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.
In Lawrence, KUJH is broadcast on channel 14 and is on Sunflower
Cablevision at channel 65. The full ceremony will air at 7 p.m.
May 21 and 22. In addition, commencement may be viewed via the
Internet at www.digitaljayhawk.org.
It will be archived on the Digital Jayhawk for viewing anytime.
Those in attendance at Memorial Stadium will be able to watch
the procession and ceremony on the stadium's large video board.
If it is raining the morning of commencement, an announcement
will be made at noon about arrangements for a postponed ceremony.
Announcements will be made through the KU Information Center,
864-3506, and radio stations, including KANU-FM 91.5, KLZR-FM
106, KJHK-FM 91, WIBW-AM 580, WDAF-AM 610 and KLWN-AM 1320, as
well as Sunflower Cablevision Channel 6.
If the weather begins to clear in early afternoon, the first
attempt to hold a postponed ceremony will be at 4:30 p.m. Graduates
will assemble on Memorial Drive at 4 p.m. If the weather does
not begin to clear in time for a 4:30 p.m. ceremony, a second
attempt will be made at 6:30 p.m. Graduates will assemble on
Memorial Drive at 6 p.m.
If it is still raining, the ceremony will be postponed until
Monday, May 22, when graduates will line up at 8:30 a.m. for
a 9 a.m. procession.
The consumption of alcohol and cereal malt beverages on university
property is strictly prohibited.
Commencement information and an up-to-date schedule of events
are available on the Web at http://www.ur.ku.edu/commence/.
The KU Information Center is open seven days a week to answer
questions about KU and Lawrence and to assist in handling problems.
If you need assistance, call the center at 864-3506.
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