Fall 2012 - Pullman Campus Commencement Ceremonies ...
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2002 academic year . For the first time, WSU held two<br />
<strong>Commencement</strong>s, one during fall semester (December<br />
15, 2001) and the other during spring semester<br />
(May 11, 2002) .<br />
This is the University’s twelfth fall commencement<br />
since its founding in 1890 .<br />
THE UNIVERSITY MACE<br />
The University Mace, a traditional symbol of authority,<br />
will lead the processional today . The mace is<br />
carried by the chair of the Faculty Senate with an<br />
honor guard consisting of the presidents of the<br />
undergraduate and graduate and professional student<br />
associations . Robert Greenberg carries it today, accompanied<br />
by Kyle Erdman, president of the Associated<br />
Students of WSU, and Ericka Christensen, president<br />
of the Graduate and Professional Student Association<br />
of WSU .<br />
Created in 1985, the two-foot-long, nine-pound scepter<br />
is cast in silver and bronze and features a globe<br />
atop a laurel branch, wrapped in a silver ribbon and<br />
inscribed “Washington State University .” According<br />
to designer and craftsman Tim Doebler of WSU’s<br />
Department of Fine Arts, “the globe represents the<br />
universality of education and the quest for knowledge<br />
. Laurel crowns were presented to academicians<br />
by the ancient Greeks .”<br />
The anvil is a symbol of forging and molding education,<br />
rather than forcing it upon students .<br />
the univerSity mace<br />
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