Wearing heavy black ceremonial robes, the dean of University of Oregon’s College of Design and school staff members repositioned more than 500 chairs on Hayward Field after attendees in the stands moved to the shaded side of the stadium to escape the scorching sun.
Then, about a half-hour after the ceremony was supposed to begin at 4 p.m. on Monday, June 15, the dean, Adrian Parr Zaretsky, took the stage to address the graduates seated before her.
The dean got through most of her speech before asking the audience to applaud the staff’s work in the hot weather. Then, she collapsed…