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All institutions of higher education seek to preserve the past. We are citadels of learning, guardians of culture. We recognize that the past is prologue, and know that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. But progressive institutions seek also to read the future, to analyze trends, and to develop alternative scenarios in response. The best institutions do this in order to ensure that the liberal, scholarly traditions influences the shape of the society to come." -Michael Hooker from his installation speech as chancellor October 29, 1986