Time to WALK

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Students walk down the Campanile Hill for the 2004 graduation ceremony in Memorial Stadium. This year’s event will begin at 2:30 p.m. May 22. Archive/University Relations

Graduation march down the Campanile Hill will be May 22

More than 4,000 members of the Class of 2005 will make the traditional walk down Campanile Hill at KU’s 133rd commencement exercises May 22.

The graduates will make the long-awaited march down Mount Oread and into Memorial Stadium at 2:30 p.m. Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway will offer remarks and confer degrees beginning about 3:30 p.m.

About 6,625 students are expected to graduate as the Class of 2005. This includes about 4,500 candidates for degrees in the spring, more than 1,275 who graduated at the end of the fall 2004 semester and more than 850 who completed coursework over summer 2004.

The tradition of a commencement procession began in 1907 when faculty and graduates walked from Old Fraser Hall to the then-new Robinson Gymnasium, where Wescoe Hall is now located. The procession moved in 1924 when Memorial Stadium, built in honor of World War I veterans, was completed.

Those in attendance at Memorial Stadium will be able to watch a video presentation, the procession and the ceremony on the stadium’s 24-by-32-foot video screen. The video presentation will begin about 1:30 p.m.

The commencement ceremony will be simulcast in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.

A live broadcast of the commencement ceremony will be produced courtesy of Rock Chalk Video and presented by the university television station, KUJH-TV, which broadcasts on Channel 14 and on Sunflower Cablevision Channel 31 in Lawrence.

The full ceremony will air again at 7 p.m. May 22 and 23.