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Stan Silverman: Graduates, step out of your comfort zone and embrace change

Stan Silverman: Graduates, step out of your comfort zone and embrace change
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At least they showed up

Just one more thing to fight about

It has been a year of angry protests over lockdowns, mask mandates and most recently COVID-19 vaccinations. Reasons for resistance range from feelings of government intrusion to attacks on personal freedoms to the need to just “show out”, as my Mama would say. Some of us have lived in fear over either contracting the virus and dying from it or infecting our loved ones unintentionally. I say some of us because others have balked at every attempt by officials to enforce mandates that were needed to prevent the spread and save lives. Now, a year later, we have been given a way to possibly prevent infection and return to normalcy. I am referring to the vaccines being offered by three major pharmaceutical companies.

The Pomp To Our Unprecedented Circumstance

As you’re turning the pages on this newspaper today (May 21), Francis Olympic Field at Washington University is in its fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth commencement ceremony, the end of a two-day marathon to accommodate the class of 2021 and their families. It may seem like a lot, but it’s the one way campus officials could ensure safety for every one of its 3,000-plus graduates who wanted to participate. So there’s a lot of hoopla on the west end of campus: Eight dignified processions, eight chances to hear commencement speaker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar address the class and eight mass conferrals of degrees.

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