Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was met with a wave of boos Sunday when students at Duke University in North Carolina walked out just before his commencement speech, the latest in a wave of antiwar protests at college graduations across the country this weekend. Not only was Seinfeld, 70, delivering the speech at the school’s football stadium, but he was also receiving an honorary degree from the school, where his son is enrolled and from which his daughter graduated. As he was being introduced, boos...
Commencement ceremonies for Northeastern University were held Sunday at Boston's Fenway Park, where some graduates tried to disrupt the event.
(JNS) – As Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld received an honorary degree during Duke University’s commencement celebration in Durham, N.C. on Sunday, anti-Israel protesters marched out, chanting “Free, free Palestine.” Many students booed the protesters. Outside the stadium where the ceremony took place, graduates walked around campus, chanting “Disclose. Divest. We will not stop. We will […]
Four years after COVID disrupted high school graduations, many college seniors are looking forward to their first real commencement. Student protests are forcing some to adjust their expectations.
The student-led protest lasted just over three weeks and led to dozens of arrests.
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) graduates walked out of their graduation ceremony Saturday morning as a way of protest when Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin began to deliver the commencement address. The walkout, participated in by dozens of students, was supposed to be a way to show support for Palestine and protest against some of Youngkin’s Republican policies. The VCU chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) urged VCU officials to rescind the...
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) graduates walked out of their graduation ceremony Saturday morning as a way of protest when Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin began to deliver the commencement address. The walkout, participated in by dozens of students, was supposed to be a way to show support for Palestine and protest against some of Youngkin’s Republican policies. The VCU chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) urged VCU officials to rescind the...
The Ivy League school says it will hold smaller celebrations to focus on "keeping them safe".
Student protesters occupy tents outside Hamilton Hall on Columbia University's campus on April 30, 2024. The university said commencement events will instead focus on smaller, school-based celebrations. [ more › ]
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No valedictorian speech. No celebrity speakers. No main-stage ceremony, and no massive graduate walk to "Pomp and Circumstance" before tens of thousands of guests. Instead, USC's graduating seniors are being thrown an alternative party Thursday night, a "Trojan Family Graduate Celebration," at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on the eve of smaller campus commencement ceremonies where diplomas are set to be awarded at individual school events. The Thursday night event was billed as an "electric...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, so do protests on college campuses across the country – even during graduation ceremonies. While Saturday was a day meant for celebrating the accomplishments of IU Bloomington students, it was instead about continuing to take a stand for a handful of them who walked []