LETTER: Poor graduation idea

Editor,

It has recently come to my attention that the College of Engineering is not going to have a separate graduation. Instead we will get to have a party in the Engineering breezeway. Can I say, Yippee?

No recognition by the College of Engineering for our accomplishment. Instead, we get to hang out in the breezeway that will be packed if anyone decides to even go.

The highlight of graduation ceremonies for each student is to walk across the stage and have his name read while shaking hands with his department head and dean, while professors and loved ones share in his achievements.

For some of us, this has been part of our motivation to achieve the things we have. This feeling of completion is being robbed from the graduating engineering class. Why would we want to support a college and give back to as an alumnus when it is not willing to show support to those of us who are graduating? This gives us no motivation to even enjoy the commencement exercises.

Our only option is to go and sit through the commencement ceremony. The College of Engineering will not have a college graduation to honor the students it has reared for four years or more. If this is a representation of what future education in the College of Engineering is going to be, maybe we would have been better to go somewhere else.

Granted, not everyone attends graduation, but maybe we should be given that option instead of it being taken from us.

Lizzette Oman

Editor,

It has recently come to my attention that the College of Engineering is not going to have a separate graduation. Instead we will get to have a party in the Engineering breezeway. Can I say, Yippee?

No recognition by the College of Engineering for our accomplishment. Instead, we get to hang out in the breezeway that will be packed if anyone decides to even go.

The highlight of graduation ceremonies for each student is to walk across the stage and have his name read while shaking hands with his department head and dean, while professors and loved ones share in his achievements.

For some of us, this has been part of our motivation to achieve the things we have. This feeling of completion is being robbed from the graduating engineering class. Why would we want to support a college and give back to as an alumnus when it is not willing to show support to those of us who are graduating? This gives us no motivation to even enjoy the commencement exercises.

Our only option is to go and sit through the commencement ceremony. The College of Engineering will not have a college graduation to honor the students it has reared for four years or more. If this is a representation of what future education in the College of Engineering is going to be, maybe we would have been better to go somewhere else.

Granted, not everyone attends graduation, but maybe we should be given that option instead of it being taken from us.

Lizzette Oman