Class of to 2004 graduate in two days of ceremonies
Over 4,500 UCSD students will participate in graduation ceremonies on June 12 and June 13.
On June 12, about 990 Thurgood Marshall College graduates will be honored at 8:30 a.m. at RIMAC Field.
The International Relations/Pacific Studies Graduate School will hold a ceremony for 110 graduates at the IR/PS courtyard at 10 a.m. The speaker will be Richard L. Sandor, chairman and chief financial officer of Environmental Financial Products.
John Muir College will hold commencement ceremonies for its 750 graduates at 2:30 p.m. at RIMAC Field. Members of the graduating class Seth Klonsky, an economics major, and Ruba Samir Batniji, a history major, will deliver remarks.
Revelle College will honor 750 graduating students at its commencement ceremonies beginning at 8:30 a.m. on June 13 at RIMAC Field. Audrey Geisel, widow of author Theodor Seuss Geisel, will read a poem her late husband wrote for the 1978 Revelle commencement. Audrey Geisel will be introduced by Richard C. Atkinson, president emeritus of the University of California.
Six hundred graduates of Eleanor Roosevelt College will graduate at a ceremony nearby at RIMAC Arena, beginning at 9 a.m. on June 13. Tom Cardoza, former lecturer for ERC’s Making of the Modern World series, will give an address on “Choices.”
Also on June 13 at RIMAC Arena, more than 200 graduates of the Graduate Studies and Research division will be honored at 2 p.m.
At 2:30 p.m. at RIMAC Field, 1,000 Earl Warren College students will hear Vivian Doan at their commencement ceremony.
Summer programs bring over 17,000 to UCSD
A wide variety of programs will be offered on the UCSD campus during summer session 2004, ranging from a Nike junior golf camp to seminars on nuclear threats.
For various summer programs, UCSD will host over 17,000 participants in nearly 70 different groups, according to Director of Housing and Dining Services Mark P. Cunningham.
Scholarly programs will include programs at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. “Public Policy and Nuclear Threats: Training the Next Generation” will be offered July 5 through July 31 to individuals accepted to or currently enrolled in a UC doctorate program at any of the nine UC campuses. The institute will also offer a “Public Policy and Biological Threats” training program from July 18 to July 31 for current UC doctorate students, junior faculty and biotech industry professionals. For more information on these programs, call (858) 534-7224.
Another academic program is Coastal Law Ecology, offered July 25 through July 31. It is an ecology field class through the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Participants in the course will include law students, lawyers and government and nonprofit employees. For more information, call (503) 768-6614.
One hundred fifty incoming freshmen recruited through the Educational Opportunity Program will also participate in O.A.S.I.S. Summer Bridge from July 31 to August 27 in preparation for their first academic year at UCSD.
Other programs for high school students will include residential science internships, a spirit clinic, a soccer goalkeeper course, a marine biology residential program, a technology camp and a golf camp.
Rolling Stone cartoonist David Rees to talk at UCSD
Comic strip author David Rees will appear at UCSD Bookstore on May 17 at 1:30 p.m. to speak and sign copies of his comic books.
Rees is author of the comic strip “Get Your War On,” which is printed in each issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
He is also author of the comic books “My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable” and more recently, “My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable.”
Rees was also named one of USA Today’s “100 Most Interesting People” in 2003.
