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THE GRADUATES
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By ELLEN FIEDELHOLTZ
Despite threats of tight security
and possible frisking, champagne
bottles and flying corks were in
abundance at last Saturday's
commencement exercises at
Michigan stadium.
In fact, security was quite
lenient.
University administrators had
promised that campus security of-
ficers would confiscate any
alcoholic or carbonated
beverages. They had issued an
edict forbidding such beverages
after a "commencement commit-
tee," formed last fall, has tried to
prevent the rowdiness that
characterized last year's
ceremony. Last May, Gov. James
Blanchard's speech was inter-
puted with popping champagne
corks.
THIS YEAR'S ceremony was
more controlled, according to Leo
Heatley, director of campus
safety. "1985 was more chaotic.
Last year, there was more
alcohol and hassling of guests," he
said.
Campus security officers
patrolled the festivities and for-
bade anyone with visable alcohol
to enter the stadium. "Most people
complied and happily drank in the
parking lot instead," Heatley said.
Resourceful students smuggled
in alcohol anyway. Todd Magazine
managed to conceal a flask full of
vodka in his pants.
PETE SMITH, a University
security officer, felt things
proceeded in an orderly fashion
and, only half-seriously, suggested
that 1986 grads were "more
mature" than their predecessors.
Maturity aside, this year's
graduates were out to have a good
time.
David McDade, an architecture
student who spent the last fifty-
two hours before graduation
working in his studio, was excited
about finally getting to walk into
the stadium through the east tun-
nel that he has seen countless
football players run out of during
the past four years.
ELSEWHERE, in true
Michigan scalper tradition,
economics major John Fritchey
waved his admittance tickets in
the air and shouted, "Who needs
them? I've got a pair."
Graduate Shelly Remen said, "I
Guest speakers overwhelmed some students.