Wearing Other People's Graduation Regalia

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

We got to vote as a graduating class in med school whether we wanted the standard mortar board or the tudor bonnet. The class before us wore the tudor bonnet, but I was beyond grateful that we chose the mortar board!

Nooooo you should have had the bonnet!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Nooooo you should have had the bonnet!

I couldn't believe the class before me chose to wear them! They looked so silly, but I thought that many of them were rather pretentious.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I couldn't believe the class before me chose to wear them! They looked so silly, but I thought that many of them were rather pretentious.

Well, I'm just coming at it from the view of the student watching the profs enter opening Mass/graduation ceremony and thinking the tudor bonnet was waaaaaaaay cooler.

ETA: Hi UGAalum *waves*

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Well, I'm just coming at it from the view of the student watching the profs enter opening Mass/graduation ceremony and thinking the tudor bonnet was waaaaaaaay cooler.

ETA: Hi UGAalum *waves*

I'm just coming at it from not wanting to wear it!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I'm just coming at it from not wanting to wear it!

I demand you change your behavior, preferences, and travel through time to satisfy my desires.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I demand you change your behavior, preferences, and travel through time to satisfy my desires.

Mmkay...if I have to. (You have to read this in an Eeyore type voice.)

[UGAalum94]

Carnation,

What you described in the OP isn't really surprising to me, but I haven't noticed it yet myself. We do say that the only regalia items allowed at graduation are given out by the school at honors night or through pre-approved clubs, like a medal for Beta, etc.

I'm not sure what gets enforced however because once the graduating class is a certain size, it gets kind of unmanageable. We have a hard enough time with the clearly stated aspects of dress code for the graduates like guys wearing white shirts rather than pink or whatever. While I personally wouldn't care if they had on different colored shirts, they've (and their homeroom teachers) been thoroughly briefed on what's required in advance and I've witnessed a couple administrative showdowns with kids who just expected that the rules didn't apply to them.

I think we'd go to no regalia and just notations in the program before we went to more graduation night policing of what the kids are wearing.

Drolefille, it's a pleasure to see you posting frequently again.