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As we prepare to say goodbye to 2022 and ring in 2023, the University of Denver Newsroom is looking back at some of this year’s most popular stories. More than 200 stories were prepared for the Newsroom this year, receiving nearly 375,000 pageviews. Here are some of 2022’s most popular features:
This past Saturday, May 21, the students and families who arrived at the Ritchie Center represented a return to some degree of normalcy. It has been three years since the last spring Commencement ceremony in the Ritchie Center without mask requirements, social distancing and limitations on crowd size. Three months after that ceremony, in August 2019, this year’s class of graduates from the Sturm College of Law arrived on the University of Denver campus for their orientation. Less than seven months later, they would all be sent home because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The perseverance exhibited by the graduates over the past three years, along with the challenges they now face entering the law profession, was a theme throughout the Commencement ceremony.
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Clark, who is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and a tenured faculty member at Denver Law, focused on the importance of being courageous. She talked about the courage the graduates
It wasn’t just a burgeoning career in politics or a passion for public policy that pushed Nigel Daniels into law school.
Growing up, his family was poor. His mother worked to support two sons, and his brother had developmental disabilities. The family relied on the state for support in custody battles and for his brother’s health care.
Once, as they waited at a Denver bus stop, his mother told him they were meeting a lawyer.
“I’m thinking, it’s going to be a suit and tie and all those stereotypes you expect of lawyers,” Daniels recalls. “We’re sitting at the bus stop. The RTD pulls up, and there’s that ‘beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.’ It’s this woman in a wheelchair.
“She rolled off the bus and said, ‘I’m your lawyer.’ Watching her fight for my brother, she fought harder than anybody. That’s where I think I learned you can really do something with this profession.”
That put him on track to eventually attend the University of Denver, where he will