Computer Advantaged and Technologically Unchallenged

Dean Zvi Galil brought the Commencement audience of 34,000 to laughter as he presented the SEAS Class of 1997 as ``computer advantaged and technologically unchallenged,'' and literally begged University President George Rupp to grant them their degrees.

As wind whipped through the graduates and audience alike, causing a clutching of mortarboards, President Rupp called upon the more than 8,900 graduates from the University's 11 schools to help formulate adequate substitutes for social programs and policies that the government no longer sponsors.

At Class Day, Dean Galil exhorted SEAS graduates to use their leadership roles to help ensure that technology advances in the context of what is best for society and our planet.