Michael Bloomberg

Barnard’s 116th Commencement ceremony, which will be held at Columbia due to Nexus construction, will feature an address by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. New Yorker editor David Remnick, tennis player Billie Jean King, and Harlem activist and Head Start program organizer Thelma Davidson Adair will also be present to receive Medals of Distinction, Barnard’s highest honor.

Even the most personal experiences can be abstracted into a number. As Stalin once said, “The death of one is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic.”