
{"id":5782,"date":"2009-05-07T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T17:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2009-05-07T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T17:50:47","slug":"grads-to-walk-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/05\/07\/grads-to-walk-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Grads to walk Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008-2009 academic year officially comes to a close this weekend as thousands of students and family members gather for Carolina graduation ceremonies and festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Commencement is at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at Kenan Stadium, and this year the ceremony will be streamed live on the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The commencement address will be by Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a leader in the South African anti-apartheid campaign. Tutu will receive an honorary doctor of divinity degree.<\/p>\n<p>He is joined in receiving honors by author Lee Smith, writer and philanthropist Eli N. Evans, Native-American advocate Helen M. Scheirbeck, former Glaxo CEO and university trustee Charles A. Sanders and textile executive and former university trustee William J. Armfield IV.<\/p>\n<p>Tutu will be joined in speaking before the class of 2009 by Chancellor Holden Thorp, who will address the graduates for the first time as chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>At 9 p.m. on Friday, the General Alumni Association will hold a\u00c2\u00a0fireworks celebration at Boshamer Stadium. The event is open to the public and will include performances by the Clef Hangers and the chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>The Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Smith Center.<\/p>\n<p>Information about the streaming video, department ceremonies, parking and travel and other events may be found on the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/unc.edu\/commencement\/MayCommencement2009.htm\">unc.edu\/commencement\/MayCommencement2009.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the event of inclement weather, commencement will move to the Smith Center, where tickets will be required. Tickets will be available for download at the commencement website until 5 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008-2009 academic year officially comes to a close this weekend as thousands of students and family members gather for Carolina graduation ceremonies and festivities. Commencement is at 9:30 a.m. Sunday at Kenan Stadium, and this year the ceremony will be streamed live on the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}