Getting ready to go to the graduation at UC Davis for The Long Suffering Daughter #2 and I find this in the notes on where to park and when it starts and so on:
“Guests are subject to be searched for inappropriate items before entering the Pavilion…Other inappropriate or distracting items (such as noisemakers) will be confiscated at the door and
during the ceremony.”
Is a vuvuzela inappropriate? Is a vuvuzela distracting? Is a vuvuzela a noisemaker? Gee, let’s ask the folks who organized the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
My theory is that this ban on “inappropriate” or “distracting” noisemakers is in place system-wide in the University of California after an incident at the 2011 graduation at UC Irvine, thanks to one loud and obnoxious parent who brought a vuvuzela and used it enthusiastically and often to celebrate his child’s graduation.
I haven’t been able to track down a specific reference for confirmation of this theory (mainly because I just made it up) but it sounds valid to me.
They’ll take my vuvuzela from me when they pry it from my cold, dead lips!!
Plus, that shade of blue is one of the UC colors! Would it help if I got another one that’s yellow or gold to go along with it?
The Joyous Vuvuzela Of Victory will be in Davis this weekend!! It just may be in the parking lot, not in the auditorium. We’ll see.
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