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Addressing a class of “new global citizens.” In her Commencement speech, student speaker Julie Macé (CAS’04) contrasted her generation, which she believes “has redefined ‘community’ to be more global in nature” with previous generations, who “could more easily focus on a local community and become deeply engaged in it.” She described her fellow graduates as “modern nomads — exposed daily to a sensory overload of sound bites, ideas, and images, yet able to adapt to exponential change in ways that previous generations sometimes could not. We travel more often and farther away, reaching for new and deeper ways of understanding our local, national, and international surroundings.” She views BU as a “place where there are no fixed boundaries between the campus and city” and which helped develop “the open minds and the tolerance necessary for being part of a large, diverse, and at times hectic global culture.” Macé, who majored in international relations and graduated summa cum laude, has traveled extensively. She hopes to explore South America after graduation and eventually attend graduate school in Europe. Photo by Albert L’Étoile
13 May 2004
Boston University
Office of University Relations