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My hot takes from LSU's graduation.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:37 am
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:37 am
My daughter graduated with the College of Science in the Field House yesterday.
1. Yeah, some of the families get a little exuberant, especially the black folks. Not really gonna judge them. They are proud. For some of them, this may be the first degree in the family.
2. a-hole with the airhorn (white dude) should have been escorted from the facility and roughed up.
3. LSU knows how to do graduation. They break it up by college and have these things going on all over campus, and they do it without a hitch. Even with all the construction, parking went smoothly. When my oldest graduated from Alabama, they had one (1) ceremony and I had to sit through 2300 walks across the stage (and my kid was at the end of the alphabet). I literally wanted to kill myself.
4. I'm not a woke liberal, but it actually awesome to see so many black kids and hispanic kids graduating from LSU these days. When I was at LSU, there were relatively few minorities at LSU. Perhaps it is a testament to TOPS, but these same black students who may have once gone to Southern are now going to LSU and they are succeeding. THIS is how you build a multicultural society -- you give the folks at the bottom of the ladder an opportunity and ask them to work for it. Many will not, but every year it seems more and more of them do.
Very proud to be an LSU alum, and the father of one. Youngest starts in the fall.
1. Yeah, some of the families get a little exuberant, especially the black folks. Not really gonna judge them. They are proud. For some of them, this may be the first degree in the family.
2. a-hole with the airhorn (white dude) should have been escorted from the facility and roughed up.
3. LSU knows how to do graduation. They break it up by college and have these things going on all over campus, and they do it without a hitch. Even with all the construction, parking went smoothly. When my oldest graduated from Alabama, they had one (1) ceremony and I had to sit through 2300 walks across the stage (and my kid was at the end of the alphabet). I literally wanted to kill myself.
4. I'm not a woke liberal, but it actually awesome to see so many black kids and hispanic kids graduating from LSU these days. When I was at LSU, there were relatively few minorities at LSU. Perhaps it is a testament to TOPS, but these same black students who may have once gone to Southern are now going to LSU and they are succeeding. THIS is how you build a multicultural society -- you give the folks at the bottom of the ladder an opportunity and ask them to work for it. Many will not, but every year it seems more and more of them do.
Very proud to be an LSU alum, and the father of one. Youngest starts in the fall.
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Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:40 am to Slippy
quote:
. LSU knows how to do graduation. They break it up by college and have these things going on all over campus, and they do it without a hitch. Even with all the construction, parking went smoothly. When my oldest graduated from Alabama, they had one (1) ceremony and I had to sit through 2300 walks across the stage (and my kid was at the end of the alphabet). I literally wanted to kill myself.
Are you sure bama didn't offer it by college? Most schools do, not just LSU.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:42 am to TH03
Nope. At least in 2016 they didn't.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:44 am to Slippy
Weird. Even Iowa State has everything separate. One big one in the football stadium, but individual college ones elsewhere.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:44 am to Slippy
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When my oldest graduated from Alabama,
frick your oldest
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:45 am to Slippy
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:46 am to Slippy
I think it depends on which Alabama graduation you end up attending. I skipped mine because it just wasn't that important to me, but went to a family friends one this time that wasn't too bad time wise.
Also to #1 on your list, absolutely. I certainly am not going to judge people who are giving support and have helped a student graduate college, like you said maybe the first to do so in their family. Some may take it over the top, but maybe everyone should be getting that pumped for every graduate. I've always wished people would support education and academic achievement as much as they supported athletic achievement and think that education is really the only true path to a future where everyone has the same opportunities.
Also to #1 on your list, absolutely. I certainly am not going to judge people who are giving support and have helped a student graduate college, like you said maybe the first to do so in their family. Some may take it over the top, but maybe everyone should be getting that pumped for every graduate. I've always wished people would support education and academic achievement as much as they supported athletic achievement and think that education is really the only true path to a future where everyone has the same opportunities.
This post was edited on 5/12/18 at 10:52 am
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:47 am to Slippy
Nice thoughts and all but you are making some assumptions there particularly about the black kids you saw graduate. "Bottom of the ladder..." "first degree in their family"...What are you basing this on exactly?
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:49 am to Slippy
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Not really gonna judge them
quote:
For some of them, this may be the first degree in the family
Hmmm
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:49 am to Tigerdev
Well I thought black kids had a harder time due to racism and white privilege. Is that no longer the case? 
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:51 am to Tigerdev
Just percentages, i think its roughly 30% of all students are first generation.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:52 am to Slippy
quote:How many students of other races with first degrees in their family are met with 10 seconds of their family yelling?
They are proud. For some of them, this may be the first degree in the family.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:53 am to Tigerdev
Another assumption is that there isn’t a bottom of the ladder white kid who lost his spot because of the color of his skin.
Affirmative action is a joke and a terrible policy
Affirmative action is a joke and a terrible policy
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:53 am to Slippy
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a-hole with the airhorn (white dude) should have been escorted from the facility and roughed up.
Maybe it was an emotional support air horn. Who’s the a-hole now?
This post was edited on 5/12/18 at 10:54 am
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:54 am to WaWaWeeWa
Wtf 
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:57 am to Slippy
quote:no thanks
THIS is how you build a multicultural society
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:57 am to Tigerdev
The pattern I noticed is the crowd behaves worse as the ceremony goes on. At the beginning everyone follows the rules. Then a few people get applause. Then people after that get more applause, and the crowd gets increasingly raucous from there.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 10:59 am to Bestbank Tiger
I hate graduations...or gatherings of any kind other than with close family or friends exclusively.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 11:01 am to Sneaky__Sally
quote:Some schools (Ole Miss for sure) only have a Graduation Ceremony in the Spring.
I think it depends on which Alabama graduation you end up attending.
Summer & Winter graduates from the previous academic year may walk in the Spring Graduation Ceremony but there is no ceremony in August or December.
The Ole Miss School of Engineering has their graduation in the wooded area in front of the Lyceum. It’s a legit setting, PS: GTHOM!
S, congrats on the new grad.
Posted on 5/12/18 at 11:03 am to Slippy
You give a pass to the over-exuberant black folks when they demonstrate their pride but you feel as though the white dude with the air-horn should've been removed from the facility and roughed up. Was he not demonstrating his pride for his child's accomplishment? Who the f*** are you to decide what degree of pride is acceptable? Seems like someone here has white guilt. Did your ancestors own slaves?
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