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Offices accept ticket forms

By Laura Pelner
Campus Editor

The deadline to order commencement tickets and receive the guaranteed four per student is today. Tickets will be mailed out beginning Wednesday.

Students who still need tickets should return their request form to the Loeb Playhouse Box Office in Stewart Center or the Elliott Hall of Music Box Office.

Marilyn Marshall, assistant registrar for academic record services, said that each commencement ticket a student receives is to be used expressly for family members.

She said she has heard of people trying to buy more tickets or sell the ones they have, though it is against University policy. Tickets to graduation are free and Marshall said, "The buying and selling of tickets is strictly prohibited."

Marshall said the Office of the Registrar confronts students who try to sell their tickets and those students may eventually be sent to the Office of the Dean of Students.

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Ceremony pays tribute to deceased students

Allison Wittman/Exponent Photographer

REMEMBRANCE: Two trumpeters from Purdue bands (above) and friends of the deceased (below) partake in Purdue's Golden Taps ceremony. The ceremony commemorates the lives of Purdue students who died during the semester.

John Donne, the famous poet, once wrote, "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee."

The bell tolled seven times Monday night, each ring symbolizing the death of a Purdue student this semester.

The tolls of the bell, part of Purdue’s Golden Taps ceremony, echoed across campus, causing tears in the crowd of approximately 50 people to flow openly.

The ceremony began with the crowd standing in silence, gazing at the large plaque set beneath the bell tower. The plaque, listing the names of the deceased students, stood as the focal point of attention until the sharp beat of the snare drum cut through the crisp spring air.

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Film details effects of eating meat

For most students, meal decisions revolve around three questions — what does it cost, what does it taste like and how fast can they deliver.

But for Ashish Bhandari, a senior in the Schools of Engineering, eating is about social and moral choices. Bhandari, a vegetarian since birth, created a half-hour film for Boiler Television outlining the negative effects of a meat-eating diet.

The video will air today and Thursday at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day.

Bhandari, a counselor at Cary Quadrangle, made the video for a floor program about how people's diets affect the environment, animals and themselves, and although many attended the program, Bhandari and friend Ashton Hainge wanted to reach more people.

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