All Columbia University students who graduated between October 2007 and February/March 2007, and degree candidates expecting to complete graduation requirements by May 2008 or summer 2008, are invited to join the degree candidate procession and to participate in the University Commencement exercises on May 21, 2008. The degree candidate procession will begin at 9:30 a.m. after the chapel bells ring. Degree candidates should begin assembling in the designated area for their schools at approximately 9:00 a.m. See maps. Ceremony Marshals will organize each school group into two rows and usher candidates to the proper seating area on Low Plaza. If you would like to sit next to a friend, be sure that you line up in the same single-file line rather than across from each other. Academic regalia is required to participate in the procession. |
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| On the day before the Organic Chemistry exam—which is always on the first day of finals—at precisely the stroke of midnight, the Columbia University Marching Band occupies Butler Library to distract diligent students from studying. The procession then moves out to the lawn in front of Hartley, Wallach and John Jay residence halls to entertain the residents there. The band then plays at the residential quadrangle of Barnard College, where students rain trash including notes and course packets and the occasional water balloon upon them from their residences above. | ||
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