Following is the prepared text of "Whom Shall I Send?" the 2015 Baccalaureate address by Vernon E. Jordan Jr., a civil rights leader, attorney and former adviser to President Bill Clinton.
"Grappling with how the government protects the American people from adverse events while making sure the government itself is not abusing its capabilities is hard," President Obama said.
Brock Turner, a former Stanford freshman facing five felony sexual assault charges, has voluntarily withdrawn his registration from the university and is prohibited from returning to Stanford.
The Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize recognizes Stanford faculty who engage and involve students in integrating academic scholarship with significant and meaningful volunteer service to society.
Cashion, a specialist in Mexican, Caribbean and Latin American dance, put Stanford on the map as home to one of the first resident student Mexican folkloric dance troupes in the nation, the highly regarded Ballet Folklórico de Stanford, which she founded in 1972.
The world barely remembers the terrible famine in the Soviet Russia – or the American charity that relieved it. Historian Bertrand Patenaude tells how Herbert Hoover saved more lives than any person who has ever lived.
