Howard U. Students Get a Special Ceremony After the First Ended Early Due to Unruly Friends, Relatives
Thank goodness they got to walk because so many of them lost their high school graduation.
Howard University’s College of Nursing and Allied Health Services graduates received a special graduation ceremony after the school had to cut the first one early after family and relatives lost it when the venue met capacity.
The first ceremony took place on May 9. Those locked out of the venue banged on the doors, broke windows, and kept yelling.
I get their frustration, especially since the school said it didn’t need to hand out tickets and the students could bring three to four guests.
The school canceled the graduation mid-ceremony:
Families filled Cramton Auditorium to watch students in the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences walk across the stage. But as they walked, dozens of loved ones were locked out, with some trying to push their way in.
“Let us in! Let us in!” some chanted.
“While they were doing the keynote speaker, there was, like, loud banging, even before that, for like 10 minutes straight,” graduate Bria Flowers said. “Just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.”
“Because of the size of the room and because our relatives sometimes do not know how to act, the fire department is now here to shut us down,” Dr. Gina S. Brown, dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, told the crowd to a chorus of boos.
The school claimed the fire department shut down the ceremony due to “the size of the room and because our relatives sometimes do not know how to act.” Personnel said they arrived because of a medical call.
Halle Ragoonanan saw her classmates get cut from flying glass.
Ragoonanan didn’t even get to walk: “I didn’t get to walk. I graduated magna cum laude and I didn’t even get to walk. I’m the class of 2020. I didn’t get to walk for my high school graduation and I didn’t get to walk for my college graduation.”
The makeup ceremony occurred on May 11. Thankfully many of the graduates stuck around.
I’m glad they got to walk, especially since so many lost their high school graduation.
It turns out the school left many family and friends of engineering graduates out in the rain on Friday night for the same reason!
Howard University never ran out of space before:
Howard University chief communications officer Lydia Sermons said running out of space for graduations of individual colleges had not been an issue in past years. She said this year’s graduating class is the largest in Howard University history, and that combined with many students not having a normal high school graduation in 2020 due to the pandemic has drawn huge crowds for graduations this year.
She pledged that the school would plan in the future to try to prevent a repeat of what has happened at some graduations this year.
1 hurt in chaos after Howard University nursing graduation ceremony reaches maximum capacity 📹: @Dream_Girl_MG https://t.co/BEL54p8OVJ pic.twitter.com/v82nASe5b9
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Black Americans Don’t Know How to Resolve Basic Conflicts, by Candace Owens,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNlOj6GzCWA
John Derbyshire didn’t make up his rules ex nihilo. Especially Rule 10,
https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/the-talk-nonblack-version/
Thanks , I agree
Impulse control issues on display.
After the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, which claimed the lives of nearly 1,200 Israelis, Candace Owens was publicly critical of Israel’s military response, accusing its government of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians in Gaza. She has also written about Jews drinking the blood of Christians.
correct
she wouldnt say that if she was attacked by the same
When did “walk” become a synonym for collecting your diploma on stage?
We called it that for my high school graduation back in the mid-80’s, so, a long time.
I wanted the diploma, but not the pomp, roasting in gowns in 90 degree weather. So I ditched the ceremony.
In the grand scheme of things this stuff means little. I did visit Howard several time to discuss entrepreneurship with students. I do think Howard is doing a pretty good job placing students in appropriate programs for their intellectual capacity.
Because our relatives don’t know how to act.
And they’re all we had to teach us how to act, so it’s all downhill from here.
the left says its allll EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE
LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE CORRECT AGAIN
It shouldn’t be complicated,…# of graduates x 4 = the room capacity needed
That’s exactly how they screwed up. It’s x 5, or you shut out the graduates.
Maff is so rayciss.
thats the whitemans math
think again
lol
My school’s graduation had many more people than normal. We are small with a graduating classes of 30 or so. We normally have about 200 people show up for the ceremony, but this year we had around 450. Thankfully, that small venue we usually do not come close to filling was large enough for the extra.
Left unsaid (?) is the fact the people around likely have good impulse control.
Well…yeah. My current demographic is mostly the poor, rural white folk.
My People!
Our HS graduation was staged in the parking lot between Middle school, and High school buildings. We had the borrowed impulse control of state troopers with shotguns on the High school roof.
No disruptions to the ceremony. Some came before, others later.
Some Howard sociologist could get a great Ph.D thesis out of “The Potential Contribution of Shotguns Towards Improved Impulse Control.”
HB — that’s good. Made me chuckle.
I’m sorry but blacks are uncivilized as a whole. I know, many exceptions, but as a whole…
Decades of fatherless families, victimizations, and entitlement
Yes, should not of happened and yes, the school should have rectified the situation immediately
But we are dealing with same issue, both sides
Millenia of civilization bred that out of every other race.
Those with the worst behavior were generally punished severely, reducing their likelihood of reproducing. Over many generations, that has a profound effect on behavior.
In Africa, sub-Sahara, nothing of the sort ever took place.
Then, there’s the cultural issues reinforcing this behavior.
Its not entirely one or the other, but both, and mutually reinforcing.
Well Africa did enslave the particularly isolated and unruly.
“blacks are uncivilized as a whole”
And there it is folks. In all its glorious plain-spoken splendor.
There “what” is, dingus?
when 6% of the population is causing more than 50% ( and that doesnt include alllll the plea downs etc) of all violent crimes
its that 6% that is telling the truth
its the white and black leftists who wont confront those facts)
I like how tens (hundreds?) of millions in federal tax dollars get redistributed every year to subsidize these entirely racist colleges, and everyone’s ok with that.
“Colored” water fountains were an extra-cost item as well. Hey, just thinking out loud.
Howard is racist?! That’s news to me. It’s “historically black”, but nowadays it’s open to everyone, and about 30 years ago I read a column by Thomas Sowell actually recommending it to everyone, saying that you’d get a better undergraduate education at Howard than at Harvard. I don’t know what it’s like now; I imagine it’s gone the way of most colleges and is now super-woke, but I haven’t heard that it’s actually racist.
Howard is a woke cesspool and it’s ridiculously expensive.
The HCBU near me is virtually entirely subsidized by grants. Also, they are open to everybody, but there is a downside: there are at least a few incidents of white people getting beat up in the parking lots just for being white and going there.
if you cant connect “Super woke” with racism
you are in denial of the truth
b/c the gop is scum ( the ones that wont stop welfare )
In retrospect, the 1964 civil rights act destroyed our cities and transferred a staggering amounts white wealth, transfering it to blacks.
I don’t think it was the Civil Rights Act, it was the other crap that came down at the same time, from the “Great Society” to the tolerance for riots, especially by students, that should have been put down immediately and without compromise.
The Great Society did an incredible about of damage to this country.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan called it at the time n got ex-communicated for his trouble.
the civil rights act
like most all political drama is to give great sounding names to the bills and then burying the ouch down in the details
I mean who goes against:
save our planet
stop violence against women and children ( guess males dont count)
so they give you these great sounding platitudes
and like I said sneak the bad stuff in underneath it all
Wrong. The lower class can’t hold wealth…they spend it.
The wealth transfer went straight to the rich from the middle class with only a brief stopover in the hands of the financially illiterate poor.
your statement is good EXCEPT saying he is wrong
he is correct
But it didn’t come from the rich, who can afford lawyers to avoid taxes. It went from the pockets of middle class taxpayers back into their pockets, but only after a significant rakeoff by politicians and the underclass.
I am talking massive loss of home equity. At the time they called it block busting, where a black family would move into a nice area, followed by schools declining and theft and vandalization jumping by leaps and bounds. Utility of the buildings was the same, but they sold cheap to black families.
Those homes all had lead water service lines and faucets were made with lead brass alloy. Both were homeowners were responsible for upgrading both, but did not. Then they got other taxpayers to fix that stuff, spending $10-15 thousand dollars on homes whose market value was $3-5 thousand.
Cities have been leaches on society for some time now.
that was the goal and still is and is succeeding
b/c the gop are worthless ( except the few that fight that welfare state
“In retrospect, the 1964 civil rights act…”
Do you get a reaction from being specific about that? The programmed people don’t know that passage was the last of several attempts. Nor who was on which side of the issue politically.
I sometimes enjoy dropping some Civil Rights Act history into rights n racists screeds. I know. I’m shallow.
“Which civil rights act do you mean?”
“Oh, you mean the last one; the one that finally passed?”
“Yeah, yr right. They — meaning the Feckless Rs — finally peeled off enough of the Screaming Ds to get one through, over objections from the Southern contingent.
“Oh yeah. President Johnson was there to sign it, at the last. The story goes he did a lot to corral enough of his party to get it through.”
“What? No, not R’s. The Jim Crow South was reliably D-party until Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” flipped some of it for that one election.”
Playing with the NPCs is beneath serious people, but I never said I was a serious person, and sometimes I do get bored.
A mess all around. Howard should have gotten a larger venue. But black people need to stop acting out like this. Totally uncalled for.
Our local university issues tickets for graduations since local grads all have about 20 family members down to 2nd cousins who would attend if they didn’t limit the crowd size.