This year's Commencement, on June 14, kept with its traditional blend of the wacky with the wistful. At the Sunday ceremony in Stanford Stadium, the university conferred 1,704 bachelor's degrees, 2,338 master's degrees and 984 doctorates. In the Main Quad at Saturday's Baccalaureate ceremony, civil rights leader, attorney and investment banker Vernon E. Jordan Jr. (below) urged graduates to "disrupt injustice" and to "hack bias and bigotry."
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Photo: Linda A. CiceroClass of 2015 Memorable Moments
2011:
Arab Spring
Japan tsunami
Last Harry Potter film
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Game of Thrones debuts
2012:
Hurricane Sandy
Obama re-elected
Sandy Hook
Voyager 1 goes interstellar
Gangnam style
2013:
Stanford wins Rose Bowl
Pope Francis elected
Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
Edward Snowden leaks
2014:
Ebola epidemic
Stanford fountains shut
Stanford divests coal
"Ice Bucket" challenge
Probe lands on comet
2015:
Isis incursions
"Yes means yes"
Meyer demolished
U.S.-Cuba détente
Jon Stewart sign-off
Time Capsule Sampler
1. Key to freshman dorm room Faisan 206
2. Beat Cal sunglasses from 2013 Big Game
3. Trail map from senior spring break trip to Europe
4. Chem 31a notebook
5. Fleming's happy hour menu
6. A piece of Meyer
7. 'American Heathen' by the Stanford Graphic Novel class
8. Stanford magazine
