hello new anthropology graduates I'm
Pete Collings the department chair and
I'm very sorry that I cannot be there in
person to congratulate you at
commencement I wanted to express on
behalf of our faculty my pride at your
accomplishments at UF you can now
proudly say that you are one of our
graduates anthropology students are some
of the best students at the university
instilled with holistic relativistic and
comparative perspectives on the study of
human diversity these perspectives make
you uniquely suited to examine both the
world as it is and the way that it could
be then you have the toolkit to do just
that as you pursue your dreams many of
our students go off and make a
difference in the world and I expect
that you will do no less please keep in
touch good luck in your future endeavors
and congratulations on becoming a proud
member of the Gator Nation
