1992 Graduation Endings that lead to beginnings

Question : What is themost significantdayin a college student's life?

.Answer: Graduation!

Graduation day isspecial.It's a day of mixed feelings; happiness and sorrow, excitement and apprehension. It means differentthingstodifferentpeople; someare glad toleave school behind them, while othersare afraid.

Approximately1,400graduates from the class of1992 marched to"Pomp andCircumstance" on May 9. Pat Buchanan, former Republican presidential candidate in the 1992elections, gaveaspeechtitled, "The War PatBuchanan fortheSoulofAmerica."

Buchanan structuredhis speech on the then-recentLos Angeles riots.

"Inthe ashesof LosAngeles,wesawthe burnout of the Great Society idea," Buchanan said. "InLos Angeles 10,000 peopledidtheirown thing. Wehave been losing the cultural war forthe soul of America."

Buchanan ended his speech, "America isthegreatest nation on earth. Ourhistory isone of greatness,sadness andhope. . .

As they took back the streets of LosAngeles,blockbyblock,sowe must take back our cities, our cultureandourcountry."

- By Becky Griggs

Hundreds ofstudentsattend the secondannual Homecoming bonfire.

LU alumnus Lee Guetterman now pitches for the New York Mets. Upon hisreturntoLU's campus, he expressed joy inhow God has blessed theschool since hisgraduation