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from the issue of May 8, 2008
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2,400+ to collect degrees
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
More than 2,400 students will receive degrees at UNL commencement exercises May 9 and 10.
Chancellor Harvey Perlman will preside at the ceremonies, which for the first time will include separate commencement exercises for doctoral degree recipients.
The main commencement exercises, for baccalaureate and master's degrees, begins at 9:30 a.m. May 10 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Doctoral degree candidates will receive their diplomas and hoods in a ceremony beginning at 3:30 p.m. May 9 at Kimball Recital Hall. In previous years, doctoral candidates received their hoods at a Friday ceremony and their diplomas at Saturday's exercises.
College of Law commencement exercises will begin at 3 p.m. May 10 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Lee C. White, former special counsel to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, will address the 111 graduates. Steven Willborn, dean of the college, will preside.
Former Omaha World-Herald publisher John Gottschalk will address graduates and receive an honorary doctor of letters degree at the main commencement exercises, where philanthropist James C. Seacrest will receive the Nebraska Builder Award from UNL. The award is given annually to individuals who have been "builders" of UNL or the state of Nebraska.
Gottschalk attended the Unviersity of Nebraska from 1961 to 1965. Seacrest is a 1963 graduate of the College of Business Administration.
Azzeddine Azzam, professor of agricultural economics and winner of UNL's Excellence in Graduate Education award this year, will address graduates at the doctoral commencement.
White, the law college commencement speaker, is a native of Omaha who earned his bachelor's (1948) and law (1950) degrees at NU and began his career as a lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority (1950-54). He was a legislative assistant to Sen. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) from 1954 to 1957 and administrative assistant to Sen. John S. Cooper (R.-Ky.) from 1958 to 1961 before working in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations (1961-66).
UNL officials encourage those planning to attend the main ceremonies May 10 to use the 27th Street entrance to State Fair Park and park in the paved lots east of the Devaney Center. Handicap accessible shuttle buses will be available for easy access to the Devaney Center entrance. Handicap permit parking will be available on the north side of the Devaney Center.
All ceremonies are free and open to the public. The main commencement exercises May 10 will be Web-streamed live from the Devaney Center through a link at www.unl.edu.
A drop-off area for graduates and mobility-restricted guests will be available on the south side of the Devaney Center on May 10. Sign-language interpreters for hearing-impaired individuals will be provided through the HuskerVision screens. Reserved seats for guests who are ambulatory restricted will be available next to the stage on the arena floor, as well as in Section B-11. Guests in wheelchairs will be seated on the northeast corner of the arena floor. Golf carts will be at the ramps on the exterior north and south sides of the Devaney Center to assist disabled guests entering and leaving the building.
Because of security concerns, parcels, handbags and camera bags will be subject to search.
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