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Graduates, proud parents, faculty and onlookers from around the state and around the globe will descend on the Charlottesville region this weekend for the University of Virginia s 183rd Final Exercises.
Those students won t actually hobbit travel of minnesota get their diplomas right there on the Lawn though. There are 57 separate, smaller ceremonies around Grounds for that, because there are going to be an estimated 6,000 graduates and 30,000 to 35,000 people on Grounds for commencement.
This will be my third Final Exercises, and my second as president, hobbit travel of minnesota UVa s president, Teresa A. Sullivan, said in a statement. It s such a proud day for me to recognize the accomplishments of these young people as they move on to jobs, graduate hobbit travel of minnesota school, Teach for America, Peace Corps and their many other endeavors.
The Boar s Head Inn has a few of its higher-end rooms still available for this year and exactly one room available for next year. It won t begin accepting reservations for 2014 until June 1. The Inn will also be hosting wine tastings and graduation dinners this weekend.
Also, Charlottesville Area Transit is advising customers that routes to or near the university will likely be delayed Saturday. On Sunday, CAT s free trolley will be detoured from 8 a.m. to 5:42 p.m. to accommodate Final Exercises. It will run west on Jefferson Park Avenue, turn right on Emmet Street, then right again on University Avenue. At the Rotunda it will return to its normal route.
The UVa class graduating this weekend was the first to apply using the online Common Application (97 percent of applicants opted for the electronic version) and the first admitted after the end of the university s binding early decision program.
The speaker at this year s Final Exercises will be Katie Couric, hobbit travel of minnesota a member of the Class of 1979 who majored in English. Couric is best known for her work as a television journalist and is slated hobbit travel of minnesota to begin hosting her own daytime talk show in September.
In her time at UVa, she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, head Lawn resident and an associate editor hobbit travel of minnesota of The Cavalier Daily. UVa s new cancer center is named for Couric s sister, state Sen. Emily Couric, who died of cancer in 2001.
The speaker for Saturday s Valedictory Exercises will be Val Ackerman, Class of 1981 and a basketball star who went on to become the founding president of the Women s National Basketball Association.
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