KU commencement to be simulcast, televised and streamed on Internet

Not everyone will need to go out to Campanile Hill this year to watch Sunday’s Kansas University’s commencement ceremonies. The traditional “walk down the hill” will be simulcast into the Kansas Union, broadcast on local television and streamed on the Internet.

The 131st commencement ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. Sunday with a procession of faculty, graduates and dignitaries. They will start on Memorial Drive and go down Mount Oread into Memorial Stadium. The ceremony is expected to conclude by 4:15 p.m.

The simulcast will be presented on a large screen in Woodruff Auditorium, which is on the Kansas Union’s fifth level.

The simulcast is provided for people who have physical conditions that make it difficult for them to attend the ceremony in Memorial Stadium. A wheelchair-accessible entrance to the Kansas Union will be available on Jayhawk Boulevard.

A broadcast of the commencement ceremony will be presented by KU’s television station, KUJH-TV, which broadcasts on channel 14. Sunflower Broadband’s customers can view the live broadcast on channel 6. KUJH-TV will air the full ceremony again at 7 p.m. on channel 14 and Sunflower Broadband’s channel 66

In addition, commencement may be viewed live on the Internet at digitaljayhawk.org.

Videotape of the ceremony may be purchased for $10 at kustore.com .

For more information and an up-to-date schedule of events, see www.commencement.ku.edu.