Congratulations to the Columbia Class of 2024

Editor's note:

This article was published in the Columbia Daily Spectator. 

By
Minouche Shafik
May 15, 2024

In any other year, I would be speaking to you today from the steps of Low Library. You, a glorious sea of blue regalia, would be surrounded by your loved ones and by the faculty and deans who guided you through your Columbia journey. We would be celebrating you and sending you off as graduates of a great university about to turn 270 years old.

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