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[AUDIO LOGO] [MUSIC PLAYING]
SPEAKER 1: The first of the academic procession has arrived.
[CHEERING]
Leading the procession is the University marshal, Professor Poppy McLeod. Following the University marshal is the banner for the class of 2024. The class year banner bearers are Faith Elizabeth Shote and Nanor Saraydarian. The class marshals are Andreas Madrigal and Collin Melly. First, to arrive behind the class banner are the PhD candidates of the Graduate School. The symbol banner bearer is carried by Daniela Samur.
Candidates are led by dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for Graduate Education, Kathryn J. Boor. The PhD degree marshals college name banner bearers are Catherine Herminia Kagemann and [INAUDIBLE].
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Once again, the PhD degree candidates from the Graduate School.
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Next are the master's degree candidates of the Graduate School. The master's banner bearers are Zhenqi Luo and Neel Jignesh Baxi.
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SPEAKER 2: Congratulations!
SPEAKER 1: For your information, the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and Cornell Medical College in New York City have already participated in separate commencement ceremonies.
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Once again, the master degree candidates from the Graduate School. Next are the degree candidates from the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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Led by Dean Lorin D. Warnick and college banner bearers Olivia Vigiletti and Caroline Calabro. The degree marshals are Samantha Marie Lee and Martha Hoffman. The symbol banner bearer is Bristol woods.
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Next is the Law School. Led by Dean Jens D. Ohlin. The college banner bearers are Nathaniel Lavi and Claire Dobbs. Degree marshals are Caroline Click and Madeline Bel. The symbol banner bearer is Leslie Laely Ramirez.
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Once again, the degree candidates from the Law School.
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Next are the degree candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences.
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They are led into the stadium by Dean Rachel Bean and college banner bearers Andrew DiFabbio and Sophia Giarrusso. Degree marshals are Hannah Toussaint Drexler and Jonah Nadelmann Keller. The symbol banner bearer is David Lu.
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Once again, the degree candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Next, the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science is led into the stadium by Dean Kavita Bala and college banner bearers Derek M. Sanchez and Tairan Zhang. The degree marshals are Gloire Balegamire Rubambiza and Lucia Zacek. The symbol banner bearer is Sonia Sunil.
[CHEERING]
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Once again, the degree candidates from the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
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Now entering the stadium, led by Dean Lynden A. Archer, are the candidates from the College of Engineering.
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The college banner bearers are Karen Nortz and Aidan Connor McNay. The degree marshals are Svara Mehta and Varun Gande The symbol banner bearer is Polina Ermoshkina.
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Once again, the degree candidates from the College of Engineering.
[CHEERING]
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Now joining the procession are members of the University faculty. Led by the dean of the University Faculty, Eve DeRosa. The faculty marshals are Professor Steve Carvel and Professor John Hermanson. At this time, we acknowledge and thank the Cornell University faculty.
[CHEERING]
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Now arriving are faculty marshals, Professor Fred Schneider and Professor Rhonda Gilmore, and Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff, leading members of the University leadership. They are followed by members of the Board of Trustees, led by Chair Kraig H. Kayser. And now the University marshal, Professor Poppy McLeod, the mace-bearer, Professor Abigail C. Cohn, and Cornell University's president, Martha E. Pollack, will take their places on the platform.
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[APPLAUSE]
POPPY MCLEOD: Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I am Professor Poppy McLeod, the University marshal. As part of today's ceremony, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Arcidiacono or the Cayuga Nation. The Arcidiacono are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land.
The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogohono dispossession and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogohono people, past, present to these lands and waters. President Pollack, candidates for degrees from Cornell University have gathered for the conferral of degrees and to celebrate the commencement of the 156th graduating class of Cornell University.
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Members of the board of trustees, the faculty, University leadership, degree candidates and guests are in their places. The assembly is hereby called to order. Please rise and join the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, accompanied by the Barbara T. Silver Wind Symphony in singing The Star Spangled Banner.
ALL: (SINGING) O, say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd
At the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd
Were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof thro' the night
That our flag was still there
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And and the home of the brave?
[CHEERING]
POPPY MCLEOD: Please be seated. It is my privilege to introduce Michael I. Kotlikoff, University provost.
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MICHAEL I. KOTLIKOFF: Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. It is a great pleasure and one of my remaining privileges as provost to welcome families, friends, supporters, and most of all, the remarkable graduates of 2024.
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Graduates, congratulations. This has been a tumultuous year in many ways and one I'm sure you will remember for the rest of your lives. It has been said that growth and comfort rarely coexist, a lesson that you will likely take with you from Cornell this year. Congratulations to all of you for navigating the difficulties and, hopefully, thriving in spite of them.
Congratulations on learning and growing together as a community of Cornellians. Congratulations on all of your hard work and your successes. And congratulations on your thoroughly earned degrees.
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On behalf of the faculty of Cornell, your advisors, mentors, and colleagues, I offer my congratulations and my best wishes for your future successes. Now, it is my honor to introduce the 14th president of Cornell university, professor of Computer Science, Information Science, and Linguistics, Martha E. Pollack.
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It has been my great honor and privilege to serve with Martha. And if I may, could I ask everyone now to stand and honor President Pollack on her years of service to Cornell in this, her last commencement address?
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: You may be seated. Well, they're predicting--
[CHANTING]
[CHEERING]
Shhh! The weather forecast is for rain, but right now, it's still sunny. So I got to put my shades on.
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And I want to just greet all of you and say congratulations to our graduates and welcome to everyone sitting in the bleachers and everyone taking part via the live stream, all of the family and the friends who are joining us to celebrate these terrific graduates, the amazing Cornell class of 2024.
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Graduates, I have an assignment for you, one more before you graduate. I'd like all of you who can to please stand up. And now I want you to close your eyes and take a moment to picture all of the people who have been with you throughout your journey to today's ceremony. And I want you to think for just a minute about all the things you are grateful for, all the ways that they have helped you get to where you are right now in your caps and gowns here on Schoellkopf Field.
And at my count of 3, I'm going to ask you to turn around and with all the gratitude that you have for them in whatever language it is that you and they speak together, I want you to yell thank you, OK? 1, 2, 3!
ALL: Thank you.
[CHEERING]
MARTHA E. POLLACK: You can sit back down. And now I want to pause for another moment and remember the Cornellians whose graduation this should have been and the people we wish could have been here to celebrate with us today, whom we remember with an empty chair on the field. Thank you.
When you're a student at Cornell, the end of a semester means showing what you've learned through papers and projects and exams. Commencement usually comes only once. But when you're the president of Cornell, the end of a semester always means commencement, whether for our December graduates in Barton or our May graduates here in Schoellkopf.
Over the last seven years and two months that I've been president, that's added up to 15 commencements and 15 commencement speeches. At every one, I've tried to share something from what I've learned in my time as an educator and an administrator, some lesson, some advice, something for the graduates to take with them as they head off to whatever comes next.
And I've been at enough commencements in my life here at Cornell and elsewhere to know that graduates have a lot on their mind and aren't necessarily functioning at peak attention level. So I've tried to keep the messages easy to remember. I've told past classes of Cornellians to read, to be kind, to choose comfort over courage. Now the nature of commencement is such that I never really know what anyone remembers.
Unlike the experience of speaking at New student convocation in 2019, when I told the incoming students to be open to new experiences by taking off their headphones. I know that one sank in, at least to some of them. Because for years after that, I'd pass students on campus. They'd see me. They'd point to their ears and say, look, President Pollack, no headphones.
This is my last commencement. There's no paper, no project, no exam that's required to complete a term as president. There's just this speech and the chance to share some lessons and maybe a little advice. I gave my first Cornell commencement speech in the spring of 2017, when I'd been here for just six weeks. I quoted from Daniel Fried, a career diplomat whose career spanned six presidents and events that seemed unthinkable when he graduated as part of the Cornell class of 1974, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the breakup of the Soviet union, the election of America's first Black president.
Looking back on his career, Fried wrote, I learned never to underestimate the possibility of change. That values have power and that time and patience can pay off, especially if you're serious about your objectives. So I urged the graduates of the class of 2017 to begin their career by clarifying their values. Clarifying our values is something we, the Cornell community, did together through a process that took place just before most of you arrived in Ithaca.
Discerning together across our students, faculty, staff, and alumni what defined the Cornell ethos and what it meant to be a Cornellian. We arrived at six core values-- purposeful discovery, free and open inquiry and expression, a community of belonging, exploration across boundaries, changing lives through public engagement, and respect for the natural environment.
When we started that process, a lot of people asked me, most of them nicely, why defining our shared values mattered. What are we going to do with that statement of values once we had it? I answered, we're going to use it. And we have. But I had no idea back then how often we'd use it and how critically important it would be in the years ahead.
That statement of core values has been vital to me as we've navigated the intensity and complexity of these past years from a global pandemic to a national racial reckoning through an increasingly divisive political culture and the reverberating impacts of an ongoing war. Clear values are a North Star in life and in leadership, casting light on complex situations and guiding your decisions when the way forward is anything but obvious.
But just as a clear set of values will help you to navigate your lives, you'll also, throughout your lives, need to navigate your values. Because deeply-felt values can come into tension with one another. And indeed, in any full and richly lived life, they will. And when that happens, we can do one of two things. We can choose to let one value give way wholly to another. Or we can do the hard work of managing that tension, seeking a balance that honors both values to the fullest extent possible.
At a personal level, finding ways to balance our values is something we do every day. You value your health, and you want to work out more. But on weekdays it's either time at the gym or dinner with your family. You're deeply concerned about carbon emissions, but you work in a field where you have to travel. You have a friend whose relationship you value dearly, but who has acted towards a third person in a manner that you think was unfair.
In every case, your values will help you decide what to do. But in the end, the one who has to make the decision, who has to choose how to balance those values, is you. Because human lives and choices are inherently complex. And what is complex at the individual level is exponentially more so at the level of institutions and organizations. Throughout your time here, and especially over the past seven months, we've seen two of our core Cornell values-- free and open inquiry and expression and being a community of belonging-- come into tension here in Ithaca and on campuses across the country.
And we've had to confront that tension and all the questions it brings. Where should one value end and another begin? When and how should one person's right to freely express their opinions, to advocate, argue and protest, yield to another's right to go peacefully about their work and to feel a sense of belonging? When does the desire to feel safe and comfortable need to give way to the educational imperative to be challenged by new and different ideas?
Part of our responsibility as a university is demonstrating how to hold these two values together, even when they are in tension. Finding ways to honor both, even when we cannot do so absolutely. Deploying all the tools available to us as scholars to find the compromises and the solutions that are, while imperfect, the best available. Because holding these two values together lies at the heart of the radical vision that Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White conceived in the waning days of the American Civil War.
A vision of a new kind of university, where no student would be excluded because of their sex or race or nationality, and no field of study would be out of bounds. In 1865, this idea was seen as dangerous, offensive, even heretical, an ill-advised experiment doomed to fail. But it was precisely that dual commitment to any person and any study to not only tolerating, but valuing diversity in individuals and in ideas that made our University and the model it set possible, a model on which the major University, as we know it today, is based.
159 years later, these two values of freedom of expression and of being a community of belonging are still in different ways under threat. Universities are being criticized for doing too much to make our communities more welcoming and diverse, or for not doing enough, for doing too little to protect speech or too little to curtail it, or just as often for protecting or curtailing the "wrong" kinds of speech.
Finding solutions to the tensions inherent in free speech is something that our nation has grappled with since the First Amendment was enshrined into law. Generations of courts and legislators, scholars and universities and all of us here at Cornell this year have wrestled with the fundamental contradictions of this fundamental right. And a conundrum that has defined simple solutions for hundreds of years will not yield to them in the complex moment we inhabit now.
If we curtail speech on the basis of its content, then we head down a dangerous path of handing over to others the right to decide what we can and cannot say, hear or know. This is something that is an institution dedicated to discovering, pursuing, and disseminating knowledge, we can never accept. So we seek other paths forward. We call out speech that is offensive. And we speak up in defense of those it affects.
We draw a line between speech that expresses ideas and speech that crosses into threats and unlawful harassment. And we put into place policies that, however unpopular, are content neutral and designed to protect the health and safety of our community and ensure that our teaching and learning can proceed without undue disruption. One of my favorite stories of Cornell's early years involves our first president, Andrew Dickson White, who wrote a letter in 1874 responding to a question about whether Black students would be welcome at Cornell and whether he was concerned about backlash.
President White's response was that the University would be very glad to receive any who are prepared to enter, even if all our 500 white students were to ask for dismissal on that account. There are moments like those when the University must demonstrate its commitment to its cherished values, even when they are in tension with one another, even when members of our community disagree on the right path forward, even in the face of great political and financial risk.
We are at such a moment now, a moment where we must be an institution that, first and foremost, seeks academic excellence, that upholds the highest level of commitment to free and open expression, that stands firmly and clearly against all forms of hatred and bigotry, and that strives always to create a community of belonging where any person can find instruction in any study.
I have been in higher education as a student, a researcher, a faculty member, and an administrator for nearly half a century. And I want to tell you that there has never been a more critical moment for our universities than there is today. We are facing gale force political winds and a sped-up political culture that moves from outrage to outrage with no space for reasoned discourse, consideration, or debate.
We need to push back against that with clarity and resolve, with intellectual humility, and with an openness to always improving to meet the moment. Higher education with its culture that demands evidence and reasoned argument and a commitment to truth is a bulwark against the threats of authoritarianism faced by our nation and our world. And it is critical that we continue to educate students in ways that enable them to foster our free and democratic way of life and to advance our society. The work of the University--
[APPLAUSE]
The work of the University, the work of Cornell has an impact that reverberates across nations and generations. It continues on in the lives of our graduates, generation after generation of Cornellians, who bring our Cornell ethos and our Cornell values out into the world with them. Graduates, as you and I end our time here together and head out on our next adventures, I want to give you the same advice I gave at my first Cornell commencement address seven years ago.
Live a value-driven life. Think hard about your values. Know what matters to you and what will help you become the person you want to be. Whatever values are yours, make them your North Star. And remember that as much as your values will help you in your life, they'll also challenge you. When they do, use the skills and the habits of mind that you've learned here, the ability to see different perspectives, to deploy evidence and reason, and to understand that sometimes we can hold two truths in tension and also hold them in balance. Graduates, congratulations. Cornell will always be a part of all of us, just as we will always be a part of Cornell. Thank you.
[APPLAUSE]
POPPY MCLEOD: President Pollack, thank you for those thoughtful and inspiring words. We will now proceed to the conferral of degrees. Due to the impending weather, we are going to confer all degrees at once.
[LAUGHTER]
Will the degree marshals from the various colleges please come and stand at the base of the platform?
[CHEERING]
MARTHA E. POLLACK: The weather's fine. Let's do it.
POPPY MCLEOD: I don't have a script.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it.
POPPY MCLEOD: Never mind. We'll do the full ceremony. [LAUGHS]
[CHEERING]
OK. Just a minute. We're looking for a script.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: I don't have the script, though.
POPPY MCLEOD: All right. So we will proceed with the conferral of the degrees. And I will call the colleges in the order that I remember them.
[LAUGHTER]
MARTHA E. POLLACK: This is going to be fun, folks. We don't have the full script up here.
POPPY MCLEOD: OK, will the dean of the College of Engineering, Lynden Archer, please come forward?
[CHEERING]
Will the candidates for the degrees conferred by the College of Engineering please rise and the degree marshals approach the base of the platform?
[CHEERING]
LYNDEN A. ARCHER: President Pollack, it is my honor to present these candidates duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Engineering, having fulfilled the requirements for the degrees of Master of Engineering or Bachelor of Science. Congratulations.
[CHEERING]
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Archer. By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon you the degrees of--
LYNDEN A. ARCHER: Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: --appropriate to your field of study with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations.
LYNDEN A. ARCHER: Congratulations.
[CHEERING]
POPPY MCLEOD: Will the graduates please be seated and the degree marshals return to their seats? Will the dean of the Cornell Graduate School, Kathryn J. Boor, please come forward? And candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, please rise. And the degree marshals, come to the base of the platform.
[CHEERING]
KATHRYN J. BOOR: President Pollack, I have the honor of presenting these candidates, who are duly recommended by the faculty of the Graduate School, having fulfilled the requirements for the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Science of Law, and Doctor of Musical Arts.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Boor. By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degrees of--
KATHRYN J. BOOR: Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Science of Law, and Doctor of Musical Arts.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: --with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations.
[CHEERING]
POPPY MCLEOD: Cornell University welcomes the new doctors to the universal and ancient scholarly world. Congratulations. Will you, the doctors, please be seated and the degree marshals return to your seats? Will the master's degrees guided by the Graduate School please rise and the degree marshals come to the platform?
KATHRYN J. BOOR: President Pollack, I have the honor of presenting these candidates, who are duly recommended by the faculty of the Graduate School having fulfilled the requirements for the master's degree, be it Master of Arts, Master of Food Science, Master of Industrial and Labor Relations, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Professional Studies, Master of Public Health, Master of Regional Planning, or Master of Science.
[CHEERING]
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Boor. By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree--
KATHRYN J. BOOR: Master of Arts, Master of Food Science, Master of Industrial and Labor Relations, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Professional Studies, Master of Public Health, Master of Regional Planning, or Master of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: --with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto, congratulations!
[APPLAUSE]
POPPY MCLEOD: Will the graduates please be seated and the degree marshals return to their seats? Will the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Lorin D. Warnick, please come forward? And will the degree marshals please come to the base of the platform?
[CHEERING]
LORIN D. WARNICK: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these candidates, who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine, having fulfilled the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
[CHEERING]
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Warnick, By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations!
[CHEERING]
POPPY MCLEOD: Will the doctors of veterinary medicine please be seated and the degree marshals return to their seats? Will the dean of the Cornell Law School, Jens D. Ohlin, please come forward? And the degree candidates, please rise. And will the degree marshals please come to the base of the platform?
JENS D. OHLIN: President Pollack, I have the honor of presenting these righteous candidates, who are duly recommended by the faculty of the Cornell Law School, having fulfilled the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Law, Master of Laws, and Master of Laws in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Ohlin. By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degrees of--
JENS D. OHLIN: Doctor of Law, Master of Laws, and Master of Laws in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: --with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibility pertaining thereto. Congratulations!
[APPLAUSE]
POPPY MCLEOD: Will the graduates please be seated and the degree marshals return to their seats? Will the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Rachel Bean, please come forward? And will the candidates please rise and the degree marshals approach the base of the platform?
[CHEERING]
RACHEL BEAN: President Pollack, I have the true honor of presenting these candidates, who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, having fulfilled the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Bean. By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree Bachelor of Arts with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations!
[CHEERING]
POPPY MCLEOD: Will the graduates please be seated and the degree marshals return to their seats? Will the dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Kavita Bala, please come forward? And will the candidates please rise and the degree marshals approach the base of the platform?
KAVITA BALA: President Pollack, I have the honor of presenting these innovative candidates, who are duly recommended by the faculty of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, the first Cornell College named for a woman--
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--having fulfilled the requirements of the degrees of Master of Engineering, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Arts.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Bala. By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell university, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree--
KAVITA BALA: Of Master of Engineering, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Arts.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: --with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations!
[CHEERING]
POPPY MCLEOD: OK, everybody has-- will the degree candidates please be seated? OK. Thank you. So this concludes our conferral. Everybody got their degree? Conferral of the degrees? OK, bear with me. I'm ad-libbing. So the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club will now perform the traditional Evening Song.
ALL: (SINGING) When the side faced far away
In the crimson of the west,
And the voices of the day
Murmur low and sink to rest
Music with the twilight falls
O'er the dreaming lake and dell
'Tis an echo from the walls
Of our own, our fair Cornell
Welcome night and welcome rest
Fading music fare thee well
Joy to all we love the best,
Love to thee our fair Cornell
Music with the twilight falls
O'er the dreaming lake and dell
'Tis an echo from the wall
Of our own, our fair Cornell
[CHEERING]
POPPY MCLEOD: Will the assembly. Now please rise for the singing of the Cornell Alma Mater with the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, accompanied by the Barbara and Richard T. Silver Wind Symphony?
["FAR ABOVE CAYUGA'S WATERS" PLAYING]
ALL: (SINGING) Far above Cayuga's waters
With its waves of blue
Stands our noble Alma Mater,
Glorious to view
Lift the chorus, speed it onward,
Loud her praises tell
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater!
Hail, all hail, Cornell!
Far above the busy humming
Of the bustling town,
Reared against the arch of heaven,
Looks she proudly down
Lift the chorus, speed it onward,
Loud her praises tell
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater!
Hail, all hail, Cornell!
[CHEERING]
POPPY MCLEOD: This concludes the commencement ceremony for these degree candidates of the 156th graduating class of Cornell University. Congratulations, Cornell graduates.
[CHEERING]
Thank you for joining us today and again, for congratulating our new graduates. Please remain standing during the recessional, and then exit the Crescent as directed by volunteers and staff. Thank you.
[BAND PLAYING]
2nd Ceremony on Saturday, May 25 – 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. College of Arts and Sciences College of Engineering College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science Cornell Graduate School (Review list of Fields to attend) Cornell Law School
