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Robert Gates to deliver speech at Winter Commencement

Indiana Daily Student
Nov. 2, 2009

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates will speak at IU Winter Commencement on Dec. 19 at Assembly Hall.

The University will also award Gates, an IU alumnus, with an honorary Ph.D.

"The conferral of an honorary doctoral degree on Robert Gates would bring great credit and positive attention to Indiana University and its highly ranked programs in the Russian and East European Institute and the Department of History," history professor David Ransel said in an e-mail.

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