All week the question was: would it be out or would it be in?
The decision had to be made by 5 a.m., so when Keith
Stockford of the Physical Plant Department called President Bill Cotter at 4:30
on Commencement morning and observed, "`It looks sort of rainy,' I went out and
looked," Cotter said, "and sure enough . . . " At 5:15 a.m., the chairs set up on the Miller Library lawn were quickly dried
and transported by Physical Plant workers to Wadsworth Gymnasium. By 9 the
field house hummed with activity for the first indoor Commencement since 1985. [CONTINUE]