USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow

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USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow
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"Oh yeah? You don't like genocide? Well you don't get your cap and gown ceremony. So there."

That'll show 'em.

I wish mine had been cancelled lol, what a pain in the ass

You know you can just take the diploma and not show up? My college wanted like $200 for the official cap and gown. I said fuck that and moved out graduation weekend.

They mail out the real diploma anyway.

"Oh well you didn't get that memory!" Of what? Being fleeced by the corporation that just fleeced me for four years, so I can be hot for 3 hours sitting nowhere near anyone I've met before? No thanks, I went to dinner with my GF (now wife) and had more fun than anyone who went.

I work for a university and am glad that it’s public because this nonsense doesn’t happen. We’re beholden to the public rather than to donors.

The moment they canceled the Valedictorian speech, I would have simply failed to show up to the commencement. And I would have done my best to surprise USC of it. And I'd have organized or at least hoped other people would do the same thing.

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