Perhaps. When my husband graduated with his MBA, when the graduates from the School of Education were announced, an entire section of spectators (presumably their family, friends, and School of Education students who weren't graduating that year) started SCREAMING. I was wondering when I'd fallen out of the auditorium and into the middle of a rock concert.
Back in my day, it was the graduates who acted the fools. At my HS graduation, someone got hold of a gigantic beach ball with a print of the Earth on it. A bunch of kids in the bleachers started tossing it around mid-ceremony. When the ceremony was rebroadcast on the education public access channel, the "Earth ball" bit was conveniently edited out.
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