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Occidental College issued the following news release:
A liberal arts education is the best possible preparation for a world of globalization, growing diversity, bewildering technological change, and political polarization, Occidental College Dean Jorge Gonzalez told the Class of 2014 at the College's annual Convocation ceremony.
"We can't predict the future. If you came to Oxy thinking someone will teach you all the answers, then you are naive," Gonzalez told the first-year students assembled in Thorne Hall to mark official opening of Occidental's 124th academic year. "What you really need is the ability to learn how to learn, how to adapt, and that is exactly what a liberal arts education gives you. It will teach you how to read, write and speak...