{"id":462,"date":"2024-05-23T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2024-07-04T13:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:54:20","slug":"admins-apologize-to-graduates-for-waiting-hours-outside-yankee-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/admins-apologize-to-graduates-for-waiting-hours-outside-yankee-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Admins apologize to graduates for waiting hours outside Yankee Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\/news\/2024\/05\/23\/nyu-apologizes-to-graduates-commencement\/\" title=\"Admins apologize to graduates for waiting hours outside Yankee Stadium\"><img width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/news-apologyemail.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NYU expressed its \u201cmost sincere apology\u201d to the hundreds of graduates who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\/news\/2024\/05\/15\/graduates-wait-in-line-for-commencement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">waited in line<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> outside Yankee Stadium for what dozens said to be over two hours during this year\u2019s all-university commencement exercises in a Wednesday email sent to graduates obtained by WSN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email, signed by university administrators Regina Drew and Guido Ditto, said NYU \u201chas continued conversations with Yankee Stadium to understand what happened\u201d and encouraged students in the class of 2024 to share their feedback on the ceremony in a survey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe apologize to all of you whose entry was delayed, and especially to those who grew so frustrated that they chose to leave,\u201d Drew and Ditto wrote in the email. \u201cYour experience was the opposite of what we planned for you, and we\u2019re deeply sorry about that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the May 15 graduation ceremony, hundreds of graduates crowded the entrance to Yankee Stadium over an hour after the commencement exercises were scheduled to begin, with dozens having told WSN they were at the venue for nearly three hours before they were allowed in. While the ceremony was postponed by around an hour, the majority of the group could not enter until after the opening exercises had already begun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the email, Drew and Ditto wrote that as the ceremony began, they had \u201cworked urgently with Yankee Stadium to address the issue\u201d but that this \u201cstill didn\u2019t solve the problem sufficiently.\u201d Dozens standing outside the stadium chanted \u201cLet us in,\u201d with security personnel redirecting graduates to several different entrances to accommodate the crowd size.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A university spokesperson and Yankee Stadium did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Contact Dharma Niles at dniles@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This story <a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\/news\/2024\/05\/23\/nyu-apologizes-to-graduates-commencement\/\">Admins apologize to graduates for waiting hours outside Yankee Stadium<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nyunews.com\">Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYU expressed its \u201cmost sincere apology\u201d to the hundreds of graduates who waited in line outside Yankee Stadium for what dozens said to be over two hours during this year\u2019s all-university commencement exercises in a Wednesday email sent to graduates obtained by WSN. 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