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MONDAY • MAY 19 • 2014
142ND KU COMMENCEMENT
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A GROUP OF GRADUATES pose for a selfie as they enter Memorial Stadium on Sunday.
Even chancellor snaps a selfie as 4,000 walk for their diplomas By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
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n an era of widespread social media, when even the president of the United States finds himself in someone else’s selfie, Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little had a message for the thousands of students in caps and gowns gathered before her in Memorial Stadium, poised to graduate this summer. “Always strive to be something bigger than your selfie,” she said. While some colleges, such as Bryant University in Rhode Island, It’s a are banning students from spectacle.” taking pictures of themselves at graduation, Gray— Norma Pierce, Little told her students to of Lawrence, on smile as she turned her back to them and commemtaking in her first orated the day by snapping KU commence- a selfie of her own. In the ment background behind her were thousands of cheering KU graduates. The technology and the terms might be different, but those sorts of excited hijinks among students, families and even KU officials are standard fare for graduation day on the Lawrence campus.
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MOLLY KANE, OF LANSING, leaps into Memorial Stadium during the 142nd Commencement at Kansas University on Sunday morning.
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More photos from the KU and Baker commencement ceremonies Sunday. Pages 7A-8A
Baker celebrates with farewell from Long
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By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com
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BAKER UNIVERSITY GRADUATES turn to wave to their families Sunday afternoon at the Collins Center in Baldwin City.
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