{"id":2243418,"date":"2024-05-13T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graduation-ceremony-canceled-glass-door-shattered-as-furious-families-swarm-outside-venue\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:55:07","slug":"graduation-ceremony-canceled-glass-door-shattered-as-furious-families-swarm-outside-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graduation-ceremony-canceled-glass-door-shattered-as-furious-families-swarm-outside-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Ceremony Abandoned, Angered Families Cause Chaos Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraduation-ceremony-canceled-glass-door-shattered-as-furious-families-swarm-outside-venue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2243418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Summary: Chaos erupted at Howard University as the graduation ceremony for the College of Nursing and\u200b Allied\u200c Health Sciences was \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eric-adams-cuts-police-education-budgets-to-deal-with-ongoing-illegal-immigration-crisis-pounding-nyc\/\" title=\"Eric Adams Cuts Police, Education Budgets To Deal With Ongoing Illegal Immigration Crisis Pounding NYC\">abruptly canceled due<\/a> to overcrowding. Furious relatives clashed with officials, resulting\u2062 in shattered\u2063 glass and injuries. The mismanaged event stirred\u2064 controversy, highlighting the lack of accountability and escalating tensions in blue cities. Graduates expressed disappointment and frustration over\u200d the disrupted ceremony.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 13, 2024 at 7:30am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>It\u2019s good to see that, as summer break approaches, the situation on our nation\u2019s college campuses in blue cities maintains the same grim status quo as we\u2019ve come to expect over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it\u2019s neither students chanting \u201cdeath to America\u201d or demanding the abolition of Israel, nor is it the usual malaise associated with elevated crime in Democrat-run metropolises \u2014 homelessness, \u201cbail reform,\u201d defunding the police or anything like that. Instead, it\u2019s a kind of meeting of the two; call it a new form of intersectionality.<\/p>\n<p>At Howard University in Washington, D.C., the graduation ceremony for students in the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences was canceled during the keynote speech on Thursday night as angry relatives who were unable to make it into the packed Cramton Auditorium began demanding entry.<\/p>\n<p>One was hurt as windows were smashed and relatives screamed at officials to let them into the building.<\/p>\n<p>Video from what appears to be the lobby shows at least one glass window that\u2019s been shattered in the fracas:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1 hurt in chaos after Howard University nursing graduation ceremony reaches maximum capacity \ud83d\udcf9: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dream_Girl_MG?\">@Dream_Girl_MG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BEL54p8OVJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/BEL54p8OVJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v82nASe5b9\">pic.twitter.com\/v82nASe5b9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allison Papson (@AllisonPapson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllisonPapson\/status\/1788981208015081503?\">May 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/12\/us-news\/howard-university-graduation-in-chaos-canceled-mid-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, those attempting to get into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-delivers-disastrous-commencement-address-howard-university-receives-honorary-degree\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historically black university<\/a>\u2018s ceremony in the nation\u2019s capital \u201cpounded on the doors and smashed a window after being locked out when the auditorium hit capacity,\u201d all while chanting \u201clet us in!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chaos had gone on for some time, one student told Washington\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/let-us-in-howard-u-nursing-graduation-cut-off-after-venue-reaches-capacity\/3613069\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRC-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>If blue states and cities don\u2019t start punishing violent behavior, will we see more mobs like this one?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhile they were doing the keynote speaker, there was, like, loud banging, even before that, for like 10 minutes straight,\u201d graduate Bria Flowers told the station. \u201cJust like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlass started getting broken,\u201d graduate Halle Ragoonanan said. \u201cOne of my classmate\u2019s hands got cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m confused why it got so crazy, how it got so quick, so bad so fast,\u201d graduate Kiana Hamilton told WRC.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when someone \u2014 it\u2019s unclear who \u2014 moved in to stop the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The school said it was the fire department. The fire department said it was not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the size of the room and because our relatives sometimes do not know how to act, the fire department is now here to shut us down,\u201d Dr. Gina S. Brown, dean of Howard\u2019s College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, told the audience in a WRC video of the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This mother\u2019s day weekend Howard University shutdown graduation and blamed the families instead of taking accountability for poor planning. What did you expect when you have the largest graduating class and no headcount limit per graduate. Let them walk at commencement! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PipTkmr7D1\">pic.twitter.com\/PipTkmr7D1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dee (@darling_daphney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darling_daphney\/status\/1788902471043064101?\">May 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The school also said in a statement that the glass breaking was not intentional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the ceremony, a visitor who was not able to enter the facility, which had reached capacity, leaned on the front door, unintentionally applying pressure to a pane causing it to break, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident led to a disturbance among guests outside of the facility, resulting in a disruption of the program taking place inside. Guests in attendance were immediately dispersed following this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Washington\u2019s fire department said it wasn\u2019t responsible for the shutdown, putting the onus on the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cD.C. Fire and EMS did not shut down tonight\u2019s event,\u201d the fire department said in a statement, according to WRC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 6:42 p.m., we responded to the Cramton Auditorium for a medical local at the request of campus police. The patient was evaluated and refused transport, and D.C. Fire and EMS departed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, graduates weren\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t even get to walk,\u201d Ragoonanan told WRC. \u201cI didn\u2019t get to walk. I graduated magna cum laude and I didn\u2019t even get to walk. I\u2019m the class of 2020. I didn\u2019t get to walk for my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-key-policy-areas-where-the-democratic-leadership-and-black-voters-disagree\/\" title=\"4 Key Policy Areas Where The Democratic Leadership And Black Voters Disagree\">high school graduation<\/a> and I didn\u2019t get to walk for my college graduation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the money we spent,\u201d another graduate told WRC. \u201cMy father and grandmother came down from North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some of the students got to walk in the main commencement ceremony on Friday, it was still a blow for those who had invested tens of thousands, if not more, in a degree \u2014 only to have a special moment robbed for them by the violent behavior of others.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice one word hasn\u2019t been used yet in this report, and it wasn\u2019t used by the Post or WRC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-send-arrested-palestinian-students-gaza-hits-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrests<\/a>. Before or after the dispersal, nobody seems to have been arrested for disrupting the ceremony or for causing the window damage that led to a student\u2019s laceration.<\/p>\n<p>The only talk of individuals facing any sort of punishment, in fact, came from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/1-hurt-in-chaos-after-howard-university-nursing-graduation-ceremony-reaches-maximum-capacity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WTTG-TV<\/a>, which reported that two visitors were escorted out of the arena before the ceremony began because of a dispute. Again, no mention of arrests, however.<\/p>\n<p>All this comes after four years of signaling by the establishment media and Democratic politicians that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-mocked-labeling-kenosha-mostly-peaceful-footage-showed-opposite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fiery but mostly peaceful<\/a>\u201d protests are OK by progressives.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to find a common denominator between this, regular violence in blue cities and the current chaos on college campuses, it\u2019s the lack of accountability.<\/p>\n<p>When so many progressive jurisdictions have defined down crime or what it takes to keep someone behind bars for it, there are invariably going to be people who commit more pernicious offenses. On college campuses, meanwhile, unchecked barbarism and bigotry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-absolute-chaos-erupts-police-take-anti-israel-ucla-encampment-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against Jewish students<\/a> and faculty has become a fact of life.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, what the country saw at Howard was relatively mild compared to the worst symptoms of the malaise.<\/p>\n<p>But make no mistake: It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/columbia-caves-mob-cancels-main-graduation-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remains a symptom nonetheless<\/a>, and a troubling one at that. And the only people who\u2019ll be punished for it are the graduates and the relatives who followed the rules.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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Together, we really can save the country.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Thank you for your support!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Please stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-leaves-for-delaware-as-russians-prepare-to-take-kyiv\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Leaves for Delaware as Russians Prepare to Take Kyiv\">enjoys spending time<\/a> with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). <\/p>\n<p>  Birthplace <\/p>\n<p>  Morristown, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>  Education <\/p>\n<p>  Catholic University of America <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English, Spanish <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  American Politics, World Politics, Culture <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary By C. Douglas Golden on May 13, 2024, at 7:30 am: As summer break nears, the unsettling norm continues on our city campuses. 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