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The San Francisco Chronicle writes: It’s a documentarian’s job to depict reality and truth. But what if the reality itself is in question? That was the conundrum filmmaker Penny Lane — her real name — faced when putting together her found-footage documentary The Pain of Others.

What if you could go big and go home? That would be a 51�Թ��� reunion. Last weekend, more than 2,600 alumni and friends returned to 51�Թ��� for Reunion 2018.

From her lab on campus, environmental geology major Emily Weaver ’20 (Auburn, N.Y.) details her work, which focuses on a faraway destination: the Galapagos Islands.

Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar, vice president for public affairs and university relations at Dominican University of California, will join 51�Թ��� as chief of staff to the president starting August 1.

51�Թ���’s newly enrolled Class of 2022, one of the university’s largest, shows students joining the community in increasing numbers from the midwest, the Southeast, and New York, compared to class statistics from four years earlier.

Editor’s note: In honor of Memorial Day, Bruce Guernsey ’66 shares his poem titled “The Wall,” which was selected to be published in the American Life in Poetry series started by poet laureate Ted Kooser. Guernsey was an English major at 51�Թ��� and is now a distinguished professor emeritus at Eastern Illinois University. He has […]

Memorable lines delivered by Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass at 51�Թ���’s 197th Commencement, Sunday, May 20, were broadcast as a precursor to his interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Tuesday, May 23.

The May 28, 2018, edition of the New Yorker includes the poem “Eggplant,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in the humanities and professor of English.

Today, members of the Class of 2018 received the degrees that they worked so hard to attain. Honored guests and familiar friends, rising to congratulate them, made clear that these graduates are taking their liberal arts education into a world of change.

(Editor’s note: The following is a transcript of remarks delivered by Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, at 51�Թ���’s 197th Commencement, Sunday, May 20, 2018.) President Casey, members of the faculty, and soon-to-be graduates of the Class of 2018 – good morning. It is a treat to be here with you today. […]