President Bush will not speak at commencement, which has been moved back to McKale Center and split into two ceremonies, the UA announced last week.
Alumnus Steve Kerr, a former professional basketball player, will deliver the commencement speeches in McKale, which will hold morning and afternoon ceremonies as in years past.
Bush's office called President Peter Likins last week to inform him that Bush would not speak at the graduation. Likins had characterized the possibility of Bush's visit as remote since sending the invitation to the White House a month ago.
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When an artistic entity brings an experience some dignity, something beautiful happens.
It affirms what society has attempted to degrade. It normalizes an experience that is stigmatized. Alvin Ailey does that for the black experience, and he's valued for that reason.
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Metallica made a stop in Tucson last week for the first time in more than a decade. Anyone who knows rock 'n' roll knows Metallica. And anyone who knows Metallica, or worships guitar players in general, knows lead guitarist Kirk Hammett.
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Improv comedy has been much maligned of late. There's something about jokey, cute, "totally wacky" actors playing short, occasionally obnoxious games that gets under a person's skin. But the sort of improv popularized by the show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" is just one aspect of what is regarded in some circles as a sort of idiosyncratic art.
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