You know the labor and the prayers and the sacrifice which have brought us to this point. We charge you to maintain what has been accomplished to date, and to move this university forward. Students in this setting can learn lessons of respect and tolerance, of hard work, and of integrity, which will make them leaders in a world that will come to value those qualities more as they become more rare. We charge you, therefore, to keep the building of character a central educational purpose of this institution. And we charge you to find ever better ways to allow the diversity of cultures from which students come, and to which they will go, to be an effective and an important part of the educational resources of this campus.
Students can learn from each other to be more compassionate.
They can learn to be more productive. They can learn from each other the value and the necessity of honesty and integrity. Some of that they will learn from lectures and sermons. More of it they will learn from serving each other. And as you find ways to build character, you will change individuals, families, communities, and nations for the better.