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OPINION: UMASS BOSTON COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BY CLASS OF 2022 JFK AWARD WINNER

Written by Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

MG Xiong. Photo by Lee-Daniel Tran.

“We cannot capitalize off of our diversity while the individuals that make us diverse are fettered by debt.”

Welcome and nyob zoo*, fellow graduates of UMass Boston’s Class of 2022. Welcome and thank you, friends, family, faculty, staff, and community members for joining us today on this momentous occasion. As a first-generation ...  read more

MIT’S COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER HAS HIS OWN CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL

Written by Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

UT Chancellor William McRaven at LBJ Library CIA President's Daily Brief Release Event. LBJ Library photo by Gabriel Cristóver Pérez. Public Domain.

It was MIT’s Commencement Day Friday May 24, a bit of a surreal event for a campus that’s largely been evacuated due the COVID-19 pandemic. By all accounts, this virtual event was a tour de force, with technical gimmicks and congratulations sent from space. But it was also held in the shadow of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the ensuing protests.