Commencement Comes to Coliseum Week-Long Commencement Celebrates Classes of 2020 and 2021
SUMMER TROJAN WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 203, NO. 1 Kellie Chen | Daily Trojan Commencement comes to Coliseum Week-long commencement celebrates classes of 2020 and 2021 In-person ceremonies were In her commencement address, the able to even give us an in-person com- to attend the in-person ceremony. first of the week, President Carol Folt mencement was really great,” said “My mom, dad and my broth- held twice a day at the L.A. acknowledged the 38,000 graduates Gregory Huffman, who received a mas- er were the most important ones for Memorial Coliseum. being celebrated this year. She also rec- ter’s degree in physician assistant prac- me to have there, and it sucked that ognized the events of the past year, in- tice. “It might not have been as func- my brother wasn’t able to make it,” By IGNACIO VENTURA- cluding the coronavirus pandemic and tional as last year or run as smoothly Amezquita said. “Most of the motiva- MAQUEDA AND KACIE national outcry against racism, hate as other years, but it was something.” tion that I’ve had throughout school YAMAMOTO and social injustice. Each student was allowed to in- and through every challenge that I’ve Daily Trojan Staff “Here at USC, I am inspired daily vite two guests to the in-person cere- been through was to set an example With socially distanced chairs by the courage and the perseverance mony, who were required to be either for him and at the end of the day, to not dotting the field of the Los Angeles that I see,” Folt said.
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