Graduating students headed to Oracle Park on Friday for San Francisco State University’s 124th commencement ceremony. The event spanned the course of several hours, with graduating students taking their seats at 5:30 p.m. and fireworks to cap off the night, filling the sky at 10 p.m.
Onlookers in the stands nearly filled the stadium, watching as the sun set overhead while speakers such as university President Lynn Mahoney and California Attorney General Rob Bonta gave words of wisdom to those whose journeys at SFSU were coming to a close.
Proud attendees watched with excitement as students walked across the field to receive empty diploma holders, containing only a printed letter from Mahoney. After receiving them, graduating students had their five seconds of fame; guided quickly through roped-off sections, students were each briefly broadcast onto a fourth of the jumbotron at the ballpark for loved ones to see. Many in attendance sported noise makers, cut-outs of graduating studen...
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