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Trish Morse '60 recalls Commencement 2000, sitting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Coram Terrace, watching the academic procession arrive, and talking a conversation she recalls often, particularly after learning of his death in December.
Guest seating opens: 1pm
no guests seated after 2:15pm
Ceremony starts: 3pm
Seniors will only be allowed access to the ceremony for which they are scheduled. Seniors may not change their ceremony time.
After their ceremony, seniors have until 7 p.m. to move out of their campus rooms but we encourage all seniors to move out as soon as your ceremony is over.
Guests and Ticket Update
Each graduating senior
who is on campus for Commencement and participating in-person may invite two guests to attend in person. Guests must have tickets in order to be admitted to the ceremony on May 27.