LV Linzi Awarded Baccalaureate Posthumorously

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Marcella Bombardieri, Amid Celebration, BU Honors Fallen. Boston Globe, May 20, 2013.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro ... MN9nzcLM/story.html

Quote:

"In a bittersweet commencement ceremony that highlighted how closely its fate is intertwined with the city around it, Boston University bestowed degrees on nearly 6,700 graduates, including posthumous degrees awarded to Lu Lingzi, the graduate student killed in the Marathon bombings, and Binland Lee, a senior who died in a fire in her off-campus apartment last month.

"Robert A Brown, Boston University’s president, opened the ceremony by acknowledging that 'we celebrate a scant four weeks and six days' after the Marathon bombings. He also honored Zhou Danling, Lu’s friend and a fellow BU graduate student seriously hurt in the bombings.

"When provost Jean Morrison announced the posthumous degrees for Lu and Lee and their photographs appeared on giant video screens, the sea of graduates and their families rose in a long standing ovation.

My comment: The above are the first three paragraphs (minus something irrevelant). There is no need to read the rest.