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Convocation endures the ages
Nils Hasselmo’s speech
will urge the University to
preserve core values
By Teri Meeuwsen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Educators will continue histo
ry by dressing in colorful hooded
robes, marching in a procession
and listening to a keynote ad
dress during convocation — a
celebration marking the formal
beginning of the academic school
year.
University President Dave
Frohnmayer, Oregon University
System Chancellor Joe Cox and
other University officials will
welcome the 175 educators, stu
dents and Nils Hasselmo, presi
dent of the Association of Amer
ican Universities as the keynote
speaker to the formal opening
ceremonies, beginning at 2:30
p.m. today in the EMU Ballroom.
“It’s the counterpoint of the
graduation ceremony,” said Bar
bara Edwards, special counsel to
the president and organizer of the
event.
During the centuries-old tradi
tional procession, academics will
wear the robes and hoods that re
flect where they received their
degrees and what kind of degrees
they have. For example, those
with Ph.D.s will wear a specific
type of hood representing the de
gree, Edwards said.
Keith Richard, University
archivist emeritus, said Frohn
mayer has brought back the tradi
tion of convocation after it had
“petered out.”
In the early days of the Univer
sity, convocation was known as
Charter Day — the day the Uni
versity was chartered as a public
university on Oct. 19. Charter
day brought many notable
speeches to the University,
Richard said. For example, dur
ing O. Meredith Wilson’s Univer
sity presidency in 1954-1960, a
Charter Day speech was remem
bered and requested up through
the ’80s, describing how “higher
education should be."
Another notable speech came
from then-governor Tom McCall
in 1972. During the anti-war riots
on campus, McCall told then
University President Robert
Clark to “control his students or
he would send the National
Guard in.” After Clark refused
and McCall backed down, Mc
Call spoke during his Charter
Day speech and publicly apolo
gized to Clark, Richard said.
After his presidency, however,
Charter Day faded out until Paul
Olum, University president be
tween 1980-1989, changed the
name of Charter Day to convoca
tion. He held a round-table dis
cussion with faculty and then in
smaller discussions with stu
dents and others interested in the
ceremony. This format was con
siderably different than the origi
nal format and brought the age
old tradition back to the
University, Richard said.
Frohnmayer has held one con
vocation since taking office in
1994 as interim president. He be
came permanent president in
1995.
At this year’s convocation, the
processional will be followed by
musical selections by the Univer
sity Symphony Orchestra and the
University Singers and Hassel
mo’s speech about how research
((It’s the counterpoint
of the graduation
ceremony. **
Barbara Edwards
Convocation organizer
universities like this one must
change their ways to preserve the
values that have made them “in
ternational treasures.”
Three core values — account
ability, responsibility and com
munity spirit — have made
America’s research universities
important and valuable. What
these universities, including the
University, must change is the
way they respond to these core
values, he said in a news release.
“Accusations against higher
education for being elitist, self
serving, inefficient and out of
control have become almost com
monplace,” Hasselmo said.
While these accusations tend to
be exaggerated, these “percep
tions are far too widespread and
far too persistent to be ignored,”
he said.
Hasselmo is the president of
the Association of American Uni
versities — the most prestigious
educational organization in the
United States, Edwards said. The
University is the only northwest
institution besides the University
of Washington to be nominated
by the association’s board.
Ten Meeuwsen covers the Universi
ty administration and the Oregon
University System for the Emerald.
She can he reached via e-mail at
meenwsen@gladstone.itorvgon.
edu
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