Commencement Ground broken for center as 597 graduate A helicopter circles in the 75-degree heal. Rumors of a prOI('SI crackle through the crowd. Perched on second �Iory-level scaffolding, cameramen train their equipment
nyer circulated among graduating seniors. turn
their
backs on
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the groundbreaking
proceedings.
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After the groundbreaking, students and
Commencement boasted more divcrsion� than
faculty filed into Olson AudilOrium to the
most.
now-traditional
al
the speakers' platform.
The
Five hundred ninety-seven
black-robed
. ' Processional of Joy "
David Wold, head of the Board of Regents,
degree candid:llcs stood behind Iht.'ir leachers ,
Bishop Clifford Lunde of the American
shifting
Lutheran Church and Ricke spoke to the
back
and
forth
and
fanning
themselves with papl.'! programs as university
audience.
President William
uncertainty
Rieke turned the firSI
Rieke addressed the problem of faced by
m a n y graduates.
shovelful of dirt for the William 0 : Ricke
recommending ' ' a bias for action" as a policy
Science Cenler. scheduled to bc completed in
for success.
1985. Students opposed to the construction of thl'
Rieke with
new
science
building
administrative, organization
of
ralher the
and than
to
Ihe
studen t ,
graduation
and
groundbreaking ceremonies planned a protest to take place during the formality. Students
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who disagreed with the actions were. said a
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Dave Gremmels and Sandy Mix presented continuing
a senior the
" Sharing in Strength" campaign.
gift
of $20,000,
univers i t y ' s
traditional
S('nior contribution