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Representing 16 countries, 43 U.S. states, and 2 U.S. territories, the Class of 2022 leaves campus as the newest group of Colgate alumni. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Brian W. Casey commended the graduates for their persistence and significant accomplishments throughout their four years on campus, during a time of national upheaval, through all the complexities brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic, national political division, and cultural debates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo be where you are now, to have persevered through all that you have, is a singular mark of achievement, a mark of strength and courage. You were the class that history touched, a class now entering a changed world,\u201d said Casey. \u201cYou are ready now, ready for that changed world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be where you are now, to have persevered through all that you have, is a singular mark of achievement, a mark of strength and courage.<\/p>President Brian W. Casey<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The commencement exercises concluded a weekend of celebratory events and cherished traditions on campus, including the baccalaureate service, the annual senior barbecue, and senior Torchlight Procession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alongside the Class of 2022, the University conferred honorary degrees upon five individuals, including: commencement speaker Wesley Morris, New York Times<\/em> critic, co-host of the podcast Still Processing<\/em>, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner; Robert Audi \u201963, John A. O\u2019Brien Professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame; Linda Gay Griffith, professor of biological and mechanical engineering and the director for the Center for Gynepathology Research at MIT; Jean Morrison \u201980, University provost and chief academic officer and professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University; and James Allen Smith \u201970, chairman of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Colgate trustee emeritus, and author of the University\u2019s Bicentennial history book, Becoming Colgate<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morris, in his commencement address, spoke to the pleasures, and dangers,
\nof nostalgia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cRight now, you all, the Colgate Class of 2022, you\u2019re about to leave a moment that some of you might spend the rest of your lives trying to get back to,\u201d Morris said. \u201cYou will long to come back to this period of your life because it was somehow preferable to wherever you currently are. All your friends here in one spot and none of your responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morris concluded, \u201cbeware of nostalgia,\u201d citing the Blues Traveler song, \u201cHook.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s one thing for the hook to bring you back. It\u2019s another thing to stay there. Congratulations to the Class of 2022. You did it, thanks for having me, and good luck.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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