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Personally, I don't think anything other than restrained applause is appropriate.
I think we're getting to the point at which we act like everything is a sporting event, and it's not.
A graduation ceremony should be dignified and sedate, and when people sound air horns or cowbells, like I heard at an honors night event this year- no joke, we should probably stop having the events at all or at least stop reading individual names.
Even if you don't buy in to the idea of decorum, when people freak out at their relatives' names, they often prevent the name of the next person from being heard and doing do is selfish and wrong.
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