GALLERY OF PHOTOS — click a thumbnail for a larger version    40th Anniversary Commencement
	Traditionally, the outdoor stage has been set up next to the Memorial Arch, through which the procession has passed. (TEXT CONTINUED BELOW) According to Inside Higher Education, the Arch “was erected in 1903 to recognize Oberlin graduates who were killed during the Boxer Rebellion while serving as missionaries in China.”  But it started to become controversial in the 1970s.  “Critics have long charged that the Arch honors questionable acts of American imperialism, while at the same time doing little to recognize the deaths of Chinese people killed in the uprising. Students who hold that view have made their disdain clear on graduation day, walking around the monument or — in one case — climbing over it with the aid of a rope.”