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05-17-2016, 10:42 PM | #1 | |
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May 18th, 2016: Graduation
The University of Northern Iowa scheduled their commencement for 6 PM on Saturday evening at the McCloud Center on campus.
Friends, family, and faculty were all primed to cheer 2,000 students getting their sheepskins. By 7 PM it was over, and everyone was off to celebrate in the manner of their choosing. But Carley Johnston of Altoona, PA, who was receiving a Master of Arts in Leisure, Youth, and Human Services, was job hunting in Gettysburg, PA, learned her flight had been delayed and wouldn’t make it back by 6 PM. Quote:
I suspect once he said he was staying, the rest of the crew fell all over themselves to join in. It makes me wonder how a person receiving a masters degree, still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and airline schedules. Link
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Well, it seems that the possibility of death by flying mortarboard is only taken seriously on this side of the Atlantic.
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05-18-2016, 08:51 AM | #3 |
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The shit I read attributed to "health and safety" are just ridiculous.
Each student must pay £8($11.67), to have the photo altered? A photo altered? UEA has 11,445 undergrads, and 4820 postgrads, so it's safe to say probably 2500 in the graduating class. Suppose 500 say fuck it, that leaves 2,000 x £8 = £16,000($23,340). Now with 2500 graduating, I figure 3 guests per grad is reasonable, 2500 + 7500 = 10,000 plus a couple hundred staff. All these people have to travel at least a short distance, and some quite far. Nobody is walking there, which means the chances of some those people being injured, even a couple killed, traveling to the ceremony is quite high. If "health and safety" was really at play, they would mail the fucking diplomas.
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It reminds me of DC's Metro woes and how the Feds have assumed safety oversight. The Federal Transit Administration is threatening to shut the system down over safety concerns if Metro doesn't do what the Feds mandate. Sure, Metro has had a handful of deaths in the last decade, so there are problems to fix, but cars are still more dangerous per passenger mile driven, so shutting metro puts the passengers at greater risk. But the FTA gets to move those bad statistics over to NHTSA. |
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05-18-2016, 09:12 AM | #5 |
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No danger from automobiles, with the subway shut down they wouldn't be moving.
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05-18-2016, 10:17 AM | #6 |
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I had to buy my (high school) graduation gown and mortarboard.
I threw that sumbitch, too, and I whooped when I did it. They told us no throwing, and no whooping. What were they gonna do? Throw us outta school?
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05-18-2016, 02:13 PM | #7 |
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My High School had that covered, the diploma they handed you wasn't signed. Oh, and the yearbooks were mailed a couple months after graduation on the excuse they could include graduation pictures.
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