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COLUMBIA: Columbia University held its General Studies Class Day ceremony last Monday morning, awarding 444 diplomas to the largest graduating class in the school’s history, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. Many GS graduates, such as the 62 military veterans in the graduating class, took nontraditional paths to pursue a Columbia degree. The ceremony’s keynote speaker Nicholas Dirks, chancellor-designate at the University of California Berkeley, highlighted the merit of receiving a liberal arts education in his address. (more…)
