USC Cancels Graduation After Firestorm Over Pro-Palestine Valedictorian’s Speech

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The school has been mired in controversy ever since it preemptively canceled its Muslim valedictorian’s speech.

festivities, the school will no longer hold its main commencement ceremony for the thousands of graduates and guests it had promised to host.

“With the new safety measures in place this year, the time needed to process the large number of guests coming to campus will increase substantially,” its statement reads. “As a result, we will not be able to host the main stage ceremony that traditionally brings 65,000 students, families, and friends to our campus all at the same time and during a short window from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.”

The move comes just days after the university announced that it was canceling the graduation speech of Asna Tabassum, a first-generation South Asian-American Muslim student with a history of pro-Palestine statements.

 

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