 So as soon as Nick's appointment got announced, one of my close friends sent me an email which said, just free at last, free at last. So I cannot tell you how delighted I am to introduce an absolutely extraordinary successor, actually an extraordinary couple who are succeeding Mary Catherine and myself. This is not about me, this is about them, so I'm gonna immediately hand it over to Professor Dirks and Vanky who are going to be your leaders for the indefinite future. Thank you, thank you so very much. It is an absolute thrill and indeed a great honor to take on this major responsibility for one of the greatest universities in the world. And I'm only saying one of the greatest because I still actually work for a place in New York. But I wanna thank Chancellor Bergenau and Mary Catherine Bergenau for their warm welcome and also for agreeing to stay on for another five months so that I can get some more frequent flyer miles as I travel back and forth between New York and the Bay Area and actually have some time to get to meet some of you before I have to take on this extraordinary responsibility. I'd like to introduce my colleague and wife, Professor Janaki Bacle. She is a professor of history at Columbia, is one of the most popular professors whose course, Gandhi's India, earns far better rankings and ratings than anything I've ever taught. So whatever you think about the new chancellor, you have a great new colleague in the Department of History if all goes well over the next weeks in terms of arranging that. But I just wanna say a few words. I wanna thank you for coming out today. I wanna thank the weather for postponing the deluge until later, but this really is an enormous thrill for me. I spent the first part of my academic career in California. I taught at Caltech down in Pasadena. And while I was there, my father passed away, but he had been himself a California transplant. He had taught most of his life at the Yale Divinity School, moved across the country to be the Dean of Humanities at the University of California in Santa Cruz. And of course he did this just after I'd gone off to graduate school in Hyde Park in Chicago, something about which I complained on a regular basis because I always thought that every time I came out here, this would be the perfect place to live. But I was in Pasadena, I went to Ann Arbor, was at the University of Michigan and there I learned about how a great university is even greater when it's a great public university and how the capacity of, it's genuinely true, it's true at a number of universities that are public that are able to combine excellence and a commitment to access and diversity in a way that makes them completely seamless, totally complimentary and not as they are sometimes represented to be different kinds of imperatives that lead to contradictions and difficulties. And it was there that I realized that really in a way, the public mission that all universities aspire to is most naturally and most expertly accomplished really by a public university. But there is no public university system about which I've had greater regard over the years than the University of California and there is no single university for which I've had greater regard than the University of California at Berkeley. So when I was asked to take on this role, as much as I've loved my time at Columbia and as much as I will confess to thinking that I'm gonna miss New York City, I thought this is the one place I could come to and have absolutely no regrets at all. So I am absolutely thrilled to be here. I'm looking forward to meeting as many of you as I can. I am deeply committed to working with the faculty, with the staff, with of course the students who make up this great university to also coming into contact with as many of the alumni of this great university as possible. There are 450,000 alumni at the University of California at Berkeley, so I will meet every one of you, I'm sure, in the fullness of time. But for now I'm just delighted to be here and delighted to take the very warm welcome I've had and now start packing and anticipating all the fun we'll have working together in the years ahead. So thanks so much for being here and go Bears! Okay, thank you everyone, and now we have the Cal band.