This commencement speech encourages graduates to aspire to moral and intellectual integrity, asserting that i they are well educated, they will experience failure as well as success and know that failing does not make them failures. It encourages graduates to neither underestimate nor overestimate themselves and to learn to cope as inhabitants of…

Code-switching is examined in oral narratives of 30 African-American women as they switched from Standard English to Black English Vernacular. A little over half of the speakers assign positive values to their code switches. Examples are given from interviews with two subjects. (SLD)

Proposes an interpretation of pluralism and multiculturalism that separates these concepts from the notions of relativism. Asserts that the inclusion of formerly excluded cultural traditions such as Judaism in North American universities has been a give-and-take enterprise. (SLD)