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Contact Us Staff Commencement speaker Jon Westling to celebrate student accomplishments, honor September 11 victims Soon after the Class of 2002 began its final year at BU, it witnessed on television, along with the world, several horrific acts that none will ever forget: the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa.
Jon Westling at BU's 1999 Commencement exercises. Photo by Albert L'Etoile "In light of this year's tragic events," said BU President Jon Westling, the featured speaker at Boston University's 129th Commencement exercises on May 19, "the University's Board of Trustees and its administration have sought to make our Commencement exercises a reflection on the strength of our community. This is a year to consider the principles and prospects for the very civilization that we as members of a university are bound to uphold. We began this year together in shock at the events that touched us as a community, and we will conclude it united, both in memoriam to those we lost, and in affirmation of the principles we uphold."
The main Commencement ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. on Nickerson Field. More than 20,000 people are expected to attend. | |
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