{"id":16971,"date":"2015-05-20T15:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?p=16971"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:19:36","slug":"a-look-back-at-bus-142nd-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/a-look-back-at-bus-142nd-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at BU\u2019s 142nd Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>On Sunday, May 17, over 6,500 Terriers received their undergraduate and graduate degrees at BU\u2019s 142nd Commencement. We heard from NAACP President Cornell William Brooks (STH\u201987, Hon.\u201915), who kicked off the event with a stirring <\/span><a data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/naacp-president-baccalaureate-address\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/naacp-president-baccalaureate-address\/\">Baccalaureate address<\/a><span>, as well as Commencement student speaker <\/span><a data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/bu-commencement-student-speaker\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/bu-commencement-student-speaker\/\">Seung-joon Lee<\/a><span> (CAS\u201915) who, according to a fellow graduate, \u201cspoke the truth, gave us inspiration, and made everyone cry.\u201d Our very own Dean Virginia Sapiro delivered the keynote for the political science convocation this weekend with her speech, \u201c<\/span><a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/files\/2015\/05\/Civility-PO-Commence2015.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/files\/2015\/05\/Civility-PO-Commence2015.pdf\">Civility in Politics<\/a><span>.\u201d And, of course, commencement speaker Meredith Vieira (Hon.\u201915) offered a memorable lesson on dancing to your own tune, complete with a <\/span><a data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/meredith-vieira-boston-university-commencement\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/meredith-vieira-boston-university-commencement\/\">surprise appearance<\/a><span>. You can watch other highlights of Sunday\u2019s ceremony <\/span><a data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/sights-and-sounds-from-commencement-2015\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/sights-and-sounds-from-commencement-2015\/\">here<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 25,000 people filed onto Nickerson Field on May 17 for Boston University\u2019s 142nd Commencement and to celebrate the Class of 2015. Here are some highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[203,195,6],"tags":[215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17013,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971\/revisions\/17013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}