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Graduation set for June 11
By DEBBIE HUMPHREY
Staff Writer
Commencement ceremonies for the
graduates of summer ’93, fall ’93, winter
’94 and those candidates for graduation
for spring and summer ’94, will take
place on Saturday, June 11.
The processional for the undergradu
ate ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. at
Sanford stadium and should last for
about two hours. Georgia’s Lt. Gov.
Pierre Howard will address the gradu
ates.
The ceremony will continue with the
recognition of the first honor graduates
(students who have maintained cumula
tive 4.0 grade point averages throughout
their scholastic career) and their fami
lies. Then, each dean will announce
their school and any special honors, said
Registrar Bruce Shutt.
Following the singing of the alma
mater, the graduates will have a reces
sional out of the stadium and will have
the option to attend a social at their in
dividual school or college.
Students should begin listening to lo
cal radio stations at 6 a.m. to see if there
has been a rain delay, Shutt said. In
case of bad weather, a rain plan has
been created and allows for two cere
monies in the coliseum.
•The “red” group (Business, Forest
Resources, Journalism, Pharmacy,
Environmental Design, Family and
Consumer Sciences) will graduate at 9
a.m.
•The “silver” group (Agriculture, Arts
and Sciences, Social Work) will have a
ceremony beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Associate Registrar Gary Moore said
about 9,000 people were invited to at
tend commencement.
Shutt said if the ceremony takes place
in the stadium, then tickets are not
needed for those attending graduation.
However, if it rains and the ceremony
takes place in the coliseum, each stu
dent is given six guest tickets since the
number of seats is limited.
Diplomas for those graduating in
June will be mailed six to eight weeks
following commencement.
Maijorie Gordon, assistant dean for
the graduate school, said the graduate
commencement will begin at 2:30 p.m.
in the coliseum.
Clarence W. Minkle, associate vice
chancellor and dean of the graduate
school at the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville, will speak on “Opportunity,
Commitment and Debt to Society,”
Gordon said.
Regents' criteria blamed for lack of
well-known commencement speakers
By ERIC RAYBURN
Staff Writer
While University graduates are
straightening their caps and gowns,
state Lt. Gov. Pierre Howard will be
thinking about what to tell them as
they leave their college careers behind.
Howard will be addressing the
University’s Class of 1994 at commence
ment on June 11.
Speakers over the last 10 years have
included Gov. Zell Miller, Billy Payne
(president of the Atlanta Committee for
the Olympic Games) and H. Dean
Propst (former chancellor of the
University system).
Speakers are chosen by a standing
committee of the University Council
and University President Charles
Knapp. The committee makes up a list
of potential speakers and forwards the
list to Knapp, who chooses the speaker
based on availability, according to Larry
Dendy, assistant to the director of pub-
lie information.
“It’s more for the honor of speaking
at the University of Georgia,” Dendy
said.
But is that honor enough?
While the University’s School of Law
has had Ralph Nader speak at com
mencement, and schools like Clark
Atlanta have had Gen. Colin Powell,
less recognized names, such as C. Peter
Magrath and John L. Clendinin, have
spoken at the University.
“We have standing invitations out to
some outstanding people,” Dendy said.
“We’ve invited the President of
Hungary, but it hasn’t worked out that
he could come.”
According to Dendy, one of the rea
sons the University has not had highly,
recognized speakers is because of the
criteria the Board of Regents allows the
University to use to get speakers.
“Not giving out an honorary degree
turns some speakers off,” he said.
The regents does not allow the
University to give away honorary de
grees and the University only gives
speakers expenses such as food and ho
tel rooms.
But Sasha Smith, a graduating se
nior from Conyers, said the University
should do whatever it takes to get better
speakers.
“Pay them money, 1 don’t care,” she
said. “Just get someone of quality here.
I’d like someone more literary than
(Pierre Howard).”
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