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2010 Commencement Remarks, Nancy Cantor
2010 Commencement Remarks, Nancy Cantor
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This time of year, we’re all thinking about beginnings and endings. You’re graduating and preparing to start anew. We’re saying goodbye to you and getting ready to say hello to a newly admitted class. And, in a way, the messages are the same. In fact, the themes I raised with many of you as first-year undergraduates at our 2006 opening convocation, right here in the Dome, still apply as you leave here as graduates. So if you’d indulge me, I’d like to fast forward from then to now. When you arrived on campus, I asked you to rethink the popular …
25th Annual Martin Luther King Jr., Celebration Dinner, 2010, Nancy Cantor
25th Annual Martin Luther King Jr., Celebration Dinner, 2010, Nancy Cantor
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be helpful as the Haitians rebuild over the long run, about how to make connections that can be sustained. “Let’s emphasize being part of that,” Professor Paula Johnson of our College of Law told me. “Let’s not just drop in. Let’s be there for the long term.” When the news cycle changes and Haiti is no longer the main story, it is not an option to shrug our shoulders and turn away, even though, as Dr. Paul Farmer, the founder of Partners in Health in Haiti, has said, it is the curse of humanity “that it learns to tolerate even …