Article: Capecchi advises SUU grads

CEDAR CITY -- Southern Utah University graduates were urged on Saturday to believe in themselves and be generous with those less fortunate.

"There are enormous inequities in our world," Dr. Mario R. Capecchi, a 2007 Nobel laureate, told SUU's graduating Class of 2008 during a ceremony held at the Centrum Arena Saturday morning. "This is true whether you are discussing conditions that are global or around the country. You are already in a privileged position as a graduate, so be generous. We cannot have a secure world unless we somehow learn to reduce this enormous disparity of wealth and opportunity that exists."

SUU's graduating class of 1,535 students is the institution's largest with 346 ...

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