President Joseph I. Castro has ordered that the university’s national and state flags be flown at half-staff effective immediately today until sunset  Monday, December 9, as a mark of respect for the memory of Nelson Mandela per President Obama’s  Presidential Proclamation — Death of Nelson Mandela.

 The flags also will be posted at half-staff on Saturday, December 7, 2013,  for “National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day”  per Congress  Public Law 103-308, as amended,  designating December 7 of each year as such and  per President Obama’s Presidential Proclamation — National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2013.