<p>I had read a couple of days ago that the school was willing to give the diplomas as long as they received even an anonymous call of apology! But they didn’t receive any. The apology thing is a bit much. It seems for the sake of an argument because they were willing to receive anonymous calls…meaning someone from CC could call and say, “sorry, I cheered for a graduate!” (by the way, I can’t really imagine apologizing for cheering at a celebration, as long as it wasn’t airhorns or disruptive or prolonged). This situation is really wrong as evidenced that it made the news due to it being overboard. There were other ways to handle this if it was disruptive…stop the proceedings and warn the audience, or have security people usher disruptive people out, etc. Also, if it was five seconds of cheering, as I saw one graduate claim, it really doesn’t seem like a bad thing to me other than the school didn’t want them to do it. If the sound system is loud enough, a five second cheer is not going to be so terrible. No matter what, the person getting the consequence shouldn’t be the graduate who earned the diploma and didn’t do anything to have it taken away.</p>