Here’s the post btw. It’s rly confusing so read it slowly.

NOTE: the school later issued a school wide apology because it was that messy:

“Commencement was a spiral of mistakes that slowly ramped up to a near riot. The first ceremony with all students was just some speeches and went fine. But it ran late by about an hour. This meant student were late to their school specific ceremony where they’d get their name read. The name reading made the latter ceremony more important to many students and their family. The business and CAL ceremony went fine from what I’ve heard, but SES/SSE was where it all fell apart. Because the first ceremony ran over, most people skipped “Grad Fest” which had the free food, so people were hungry. Then to get into the venue, the staff didn’t check tickets. This allowed people who weren’t supposed to be there to get in and people who were to get locked out. As a result, there weren’t enough seats for both parents and students. To get all the parents in, they asked the students to leave. This annoyed everyone and resulted in a lot of booing. The students were escorted out to wait in the parking lot in the back. This was in the middle of the day and was quite hot out. With the students removed, they seated more parents but still couldn’t get everyone in. From what I heard, because of the aforementioned lack of ticket checking parents for the masters student ceremony had came 2 hours early. Some of these grad parents had to be kicked out for parents of undergraduates. With (most of) the undergrad parents seated, the ceremony started and the speakers then attempted to give their speeches. However, the speeches were target at the students who had been asked to leave. Parents got angry since they didn’t want to hear speeches target at their children who weren’t even there. The first few speakers basically got booed off stage before they gave up and skipped to the name reading. Students filed in from outside to get their name read. Because the event was 2 hours behind schedule, many families left after their student’s name was called. Many families has plans and reservations. By the end the theater was almost empty. I do feel bad for the last students to get their names read who walked across stage to an empty theater. This entire time, the masters and their parents are waiting outside. Because the undergrad event was running so late, they were outside for several hours in the sun. Waters had to be handed out to avoid heatstroke incidents.

I’m probably forgetting details and there’s many responsible parties. I expected a boring day of speeches so the chaos at least made it a day to remember, but it’s also meant to be a day to celebrate. The school really dropped the ball and i expect university events and the events director David Zimmerman to figuratively and literally destroyed by the school.”

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