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Utah State University 119th COMMENCEMENT May 2 and 3,2008 Utah State University 119th COMMENCEMENT M ay 2 and 3, 2008 The mission of Utah State University is to be one of the nation’s premier student-centered space- and land-grant universities by fostering the principle that academics come first, by cultivating diversity of thought and culture, and by serving the public through learning, discovery, and engagement. Information Technology will be producing a DVD of the 2008 Commencement Ceremony for $12.00, including shipping/handling (cash or checks only). Call 435-797-9506 to purchase. Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. An archive of today's commencement ceremony will be available online at www.usu.edu/provost/commencement 2 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday, M ay 2, 2008 GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT AND HOODING CEREMONY 12:30 p.m., assembly of candidates, Nelson Field House 1:00 p.m., academic procession from Nelson Field House to Dee Glen Smith Spectrum 1:30 p.m., ceremony begins, Dee Glen Smith Spectrum Saturday, M ay 3, 2008 ACADEMIC ASSEMBLY 8:30 a.m., Undergraduate Students and Faculty will assemble on the University Quad ACADEMIC PROCESSION 9:00 a.m., Taggart Student Center and University Quad to Dee Glen Smith Spectrum UNDERGRADUATE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY 9:30 a.m., Dee Glen Smith Spectrum COLLEGE CEREMONIES 12:00 noon Jon M. Huntsman School of Business — Dee Glen Smith Spectrum College of Engineering - Kent Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center College of Natural Resources — Morgan Theatre, Chase Fine Arts Center College of Science — Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom, Taggart Student Center 2:00 p.m. College of Agriculture — Kent Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services — Dee Glen Smith Spectrum 4:00 p.m. College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences - Dee Glen Smith Spectrum ALUMNI GRADUATION PICNIC 11:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m., University HPER Field (tickets required) 3 GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT AND HOODING CEREMONY Friday, May 2, 2008 Dee Glen Smith Spectrum 1:00 pan. ACADEMIC PROCESSION Nelson Field House to Dee Glen Smith Spectrum 1:50 pan. PROCESSIONAL Blue String Quartet PRESENTATION OF COLORS Air Force ROTC NATIONAL ANTHEM "The Star Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key Mary-Jane Lee WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS Byron R. Burnham, Dean, School of Graduate Studies PRESENTATION OF UNIVERSITY OUTSTANDING GRADUATE MENTOR AWARD Stan L. Albrecht, President HOODING Master’s Candidates by Graduate Council Members Doctoral Candidates by College Dean and Major Professor PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Stan L. Albrecht, President and Raymond T. Coward, Provost CONFERRING OF DEGREES Stan L. Albrecht, President CLOSING REMARKS Byron R. Burnham, Dean RECESSIONAL Blue String Quartet A UNDERGRADUATE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY Saturday, May 3, 2008 President Stan L. Albrecht, Conducting 9:00 a. m. ACADEMIC PROCESSION University Quad and Taggart Student Center to Dee Glenn Smith Spectrum 9:30 a. m. PROCESSIONAL “The Crown of Chivalry,” Perry Fletcher, University Wind Orchestra PRESENTATION OF COLORS Air Force and Army ROTC NATIONAL ANTHEM “Star Spangled Banner,” University Wind Orchestra, Francis Scott Key and Mary-Jane Lee PRESIDENT’S GREETING President Stan L. Albrecht ADDRESS TO GRADUATES James H. Quigley RECOGNITION OF SPECIAL AWARDS President Stan L. Albrecht CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES President Stan L. Albrecht Clark P. Giles, citation read by Suzanne Pierce-Moore W. Eugene Hansen, citation read by Scott R. Watterson L. Tom Perry, citation read by Richard L. Shipley James H. Quigley, citation read by David P. Cook Beverley T. Sorenson, citation read by Douglas S. Foxley STUDENT SPEAKER Andrew D. Braithwaite, Valedictorian, College of Natural Resources CONFERRING OF DEGREES President Stan L. Albrecht CONCLUDING REMARKS President Stan L. Albrecht MUSICAL SELECTION “Alma Mater Hymn” Theodore M. Burton, University Wind Orchestra and Mary-Jane Lee RECESSIONAL "Regal Procession,” Clifton Williams, University Wind Orchestra Conductor, Dr. Thomas P. Rohrer, Director of Bands UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY’S CEREMONIAL MACE The top of the mace depicts a flame in a manner recalling its primitive of crystal tinted with Aggie blue and function. Even in the modern age, it modeled after the “lamp of learning," is not unknown for a university mace the classical symbol of knowledge to be used in this way. For instance, and freedom. Imbedded within it is during the commencement ceremonies a brushed copper disk emblazoned at Cornell m 1973, when a professor with the University's seal. of medieval studies who was carrying the university’s mace in a procession The copper bezel below this crystal was confronted by protesters, he has 13 sunstones set into it. These wielded his academic training and the symbolize the 13 presidents who guided mace in its original fashion. the institution through its first century. But university maces today are, The white oak shaft comes from wood for the most part, treated as that was originally part of the banisters decorative emblems symbolizing of Old Main and rescued from the the institution’s authority. Seen building after the fire of 1983. most often at commencement and other solemn occasions, they remind The base consists of limestone those in attendance of the deep provided by the Church of Jesus traditions inherent in a student’s Christ of Latter-day Saints and taken journey through university studies. from the same quarry that was used Like the word for the ceremony to build the Logan Temple. itself, commencement,’’ — which admonishes its participants to Thus, the mace represents the remember that this is a celebration essence of our land-grant institution: of beginnings, not endings —the seated in the bedrock of our mace turns the eye forward to the community, striving and growing life to come by recalling the rich ever higher, crowned by the light of academic heritage of higher learning learning. and the promise of attainment that comes through education and A Brief History of Maced self-betterment. Our mace, thus, Maces have long been part of combines elements of both the old academic heraldry, though their and the new, traditional features function was not always ceremonial. like gems and stone enhanced with Originally weapons of war, maces are modern designs such as arcs of featured often in ancient Egyptian faceted crystal. Both an impressive art where kings are shown ritually work of art and a hallmark of the smiting their foes. This original university’s history, this mace brings function has not been entirely lost. to light everything that is best about Campus officials in the Middle Ages Utah State University. more than once kept students in line by employing their university ’s mace 6 ACADEMIC HERALDRY The history of academic heraldry traditional manner. The rear part of the degree, which at Utah State reaches back into the early days of the its oblong shape is square cut, and University are navy blue and white, university. A statute of 1321 required the front part has an arc cut away. It displayed in a heraldic chevron. The that all “Doctors, Licentiates, and is designed this way so that it can be doctoral hood consists of a larger and Bachelors” of the University of worn open or closed. The gown for longer assemblage of institutional Coimbra wear gowns. In England, in the doctoral degree has bell-shaped color draped over the recipient’s the fourteenth century, the statutes sleeves and may be worn open or shoulders and falling well down the of certain college forbade "excess in closed. back. The binding or edging of the apparel” and prescribed the wearing hoods is of velvet or velveteen, three of a long gown, necessary', no doubt, Colors For all academic purposes, inches wide for the master’s degree for warmth in the unheated buildings including trimmings of doctoral and five inches wide for the doctoral frequented by medieval scholars. gowns, edging of hoods, and tassels degree. Hoods were used to cover the head of caps, the colors associated with the until replaced by the skull cap and different academic disciplines are as Caps Academic caps come in two later academic caps. Both Cambridge follows: forms: the traditional mortarboard and Oxford have made academic (from Oxford) or square cap; and a dress a matter of university control Agriculture, Maize soft cap that resembles an oversized down to the most minor detail; and Education and Human beret (from Cambridge). The in Oxford during the seventeenth Services, Light Blue mortarboard used by Utah State century any tailor who changed the Engineering, Orange University is worn with a tassel. authorized design “even bv a nail’s Humanities, Arts, and Social Black tassels designate the graduate’s breadth” was punished by the vice- Sciences, White major field of learning, and gold chancellor of the University. When Huntsman School of Business, Drab tassels indicate doctors and the American colleges and universities Natural Resources, Russet governing officials of institutions. decided to adopt some suitable system Science, Gold-Yellow of academic apparel, it seemed best School of Graduate Studies, Black Academic Procession The to agree on one that all might follow. commencement procession originates Accordingly, there was held on May The white ribbon with the Greek key at the University Quad and the 16, 1895, at Columbia University, on the robe of a graduate identifies line of march proceeds to the a conference of representatives of an inductee into Phi Kappa Phi, Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.