Ire Arogundade (left) and Olivia Pierce follow the rising sun from the Clark Street Beach. They woke up early to watch the sun climb above the horizon at 5:14 a.m. “I wanted to see it before I leave,” said Ire, who graduated this weekend and leaves Saturday for Los Angeles to start a career as a screenwriter. Olivia, a junior in musicology, saw her first sunrise, too. “It was ominous and then it was very pretty,” she said. They spent more than an hour on the lifeguard tower. Said Ire: “We mostly talked about the future.” (Photo by Richard Cahan)

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