I’m a university faculty member and I can only surmise that Karen had become drunk with power during Covid and wanted control over the event.
Yes it was going to take a long time with shoutouts and such but that’s the way it is today.
If the students at your school are allowed to carry on yelling and acting like beasts on a rampage during a graduation ceremony or any other event, then your school is perpetuating the kind of behavior that has systematically destroyed this nation. Ever since the uncontrollable mob has been given not only a voice but attention , it is no secret how low this country’s shared value system has sunk. I am not ashamed to say that while sitting at my son’s graduation from my own alma mater, I was stunned at the vulgarian culture that has been inbedded in this institution and many others . A graduation from a university is a solemn and proud occasion. It is not supposed to be a venue for shouting and cuss words or unmanageable yelling. Blacks, in particular, seem to think this type of activity is not only appropriate but necessary. As long as this unseemly activity is tolerated, the road to the total elimination of our culture is guaranteed
What ever happened to simply have one person read the graduate’s name while another person hands over the diploma and shakes the graduate’s hand? It’s worked at every school graduation for decades. Why change it?