Commencement 2003
	COMMENCEMENT 2003 - Story and Pictorial It was a picture-perfect day. Under a brilliantly blue morning sky, members of the graduating Class of 2003 were recognized for their academic success and received counsel from the diverse worlds of broadcast journalism, insurance, and the arts during the University's 46th Commencement ceremony on May 18. COMMENCEMENT 2003 - The Class of 2003 How time flies! As avid Observer readers will recall, our Winter 1999 issue introduced nine wet-behind-the-ears freshmen as they began navigating their way through their first year on campus. Five of the nine remained and graduated this May. We now bring you the final chapter in their University of Hartford stories. COMMENCEMENT 2003 - Awards Five faculty members and three students were honored at Commencement.

Artist to Artist
	Rita Garvin '05 is working with a troublesome batch of film. It is late afternoon on a dreary Wednesday in April. Garvin, a sophomore, and her classmates are hard at work in room 114, the black-and-white darkroom at the Hartford Art School.

The Unreal World of Reality Television
	Ordinary citizens are deposited in a wilderness setting where they form tribes and battle each other in a series of "immunity challenges." A group of gorgeous young women vie for the affection of an attractive young man whom they believe to be a millionaire but who is actually a construction worker. Another young woman dunks her head into a tank to bob for rings that are floating in 50 gallons of cow's blood.

Editor-in-Chief: Trish Charles Editor: Diana Simonds Art Director: Keith Campagna Copy Editor: Beverly Kennedy Circulation Manager: Dee Pistel Contributing writers: Kate Dougherty '01, '03; Jonathan Easterbrook '87, '90; Jenny Holland; Mark Hughes; Judie Jacobson; Barbara Klemmer '00; Erin Mason '00; Jessica Pizano '98; Missy Murphy Pavano '70; Matthew Silver; Terri Raimondi; Jill Thompson; Margaret Withey; Bill Yousman '99 Contributing photographers: Steve Bamberg, India Blue, Howard Breitrose, Jeff Feldmann, Bruce Johnson, Steve Laschever, Robert Lisak, Lanny Nagler, Doug Penhall, Amy Rockoff '03, Steve Slade Web Design: Jim Kalambokis Published in September, November, March and June for faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the University. Published by the Office of Communications - University of Hartford 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut, 06117-1599. All contents, unless otherwise specified, copyright 2003 by the University of Hartford.