This past weekend was graduation day at the University of Denver. In addition to Friday's graduate school graduation, on Saturday 1,150 DU undergraduates who attended the ceremony each received $500 and were encouraged to donate it to people in need or the charity of their choice. Graduation was always a big deal for the DU Bookstore when I worked there as Finance Manager. We set up a table at the Driscoll Center, where the ceremonies took place, and sold a lot of merchandise to students and their parents. After the ceremony, a large crowd would descend on the bookstore, and for a few hours, the place was hopping. Afterwards, the store was dead quiet, and remained so until the start of the fall quarter. Talk about boring. Of course, as far as I can tell, that's what the Follett Higher Education Group run DU Bookstore looks like all the time now. Thank God I am no longer there, even though I was a bit miffed when they laid me off. Just telling it like it is. As always.
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