Will President Ribeau Apologize Again?

Salsa · Post by **Salsa** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:04 am

Somebody listen at Commencement and give us a report.

pardonfan · Post by **pardonfan** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:25 am

for what?

Salsa · Post by **Salsa** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:59 am

Hold on!! Perhaps I goofed. Are the graduation exercises being held at the Doyt?

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Sat May 07, 2005 10:03 am

Salsa wrote:Hold on!! Perhaps I goofed. Are the graduation exercises being held at the Doyt?

Nope, at Memorial Hall/Anderson Arena. WE'll have to see if this is one of his final apologies. . .

BGman2004 · Post by **BGman2004** » Sat May 07, 2005 1:30 pm

What would he be apologizing for????

falconman · Post by **falconman** » Sat May 07, 2005 6:57 pm

I think they are talking about the size of the gym and how it only holds 5000 and how you can only bring so many guests. That's just a guess though.

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:01 pm

falconman wrote:I think they are talking about the size of the gym and how it only holds 5000 and how you can only bring so many guests. That's just a guess though.

Yes it was a good thing salsa was so specific

I still don't know if that is what he was talking about.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:08 pm

kdog27 wrote:
falconman wrote:I think they are talking about the size of the gym and how it only holds 5000 and how you can only bring so many guests. That's just a guess though.
Yes it was a good thing salsa was so specific I still don't know if that is what he was talking about.

I think he was talking about that thing with the thing by the other thing. You know?

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:16 pm

Yeah it makes sense now. For some reason it seemed so vague at first. Silly me.

Salsa · Post by **Salsa** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:48 pm

OK, OK!!

My posts have been in reference to President Ribeau apologizing the last few years, so I've read, for family and friends of graduates not being able to attend the ceremony in Anderson Arena because it is too small. Some of them had to watch the ceremony on closed TV somewhere else on campus. I think he mentioned on one occasion that he was working on solving this problem.

I still haven't heard if he apologized for this during this year's ceremony.

Tricky_Falcon · Post by **Tricky_Falcon** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:16 pm

He didn't apologize. Get there earlier...

falconfan1 · Post by **falconfan1** » Mon May 09, 2005 11:46 pm

salsa, I was at our spring graduation this year and I thought the event was just excellent. The arena was nearly full for all three graduation ceremonies. The overflow at Olscamp next door saw a very nice live broadcast with pre event and post event commentary (streamed worldwide).

Just wonderful as far as I was concerned. Dr. Ribeau did a fine job and did not mention our facility- likely because it "did its job" so to speak. Sure, it would be fine to have 12,000 people- 2,000 grads and 10,000 guests all together but the three smaller graduation ceremonies actually seem to work quite well at least for the graduates and the guests.

Graduation speakers were excellent with a BG grad from NASA, a super speech by a young violinist/entrepreneur and the outstanding senior 2005 handling the duties.

Yes, we need a new arena or a redesigned/configured Anderson. For many, many reasons. And we will get one some day. But for right now, graduation day is still a wonderful day at BG.

Go Falcons!

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue May 10, 2005 10:06 pm

So...was the big announcement that Dr Sid was going to apologize, not apologize or apologize for not apologizing. I suppose he could not apologize for not apologizing, but when you break that concept down logically you realize that everytime I'm sayimg something other than "I'm sorry", I'm not apologizing.

Frankly, the whole damn discussion has left me confused...

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:49 am

He apologized for apologizing for about 15 minutes then his head exploded.

In other news, Bowling Green State University is looking for a new President.

golfertk14 · Post by **golfertk14** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:12 am

Salsa wrote:OK, OK!!

My posts have been in reference to President Ribeau apologizing the last few years, so I've read, for family and friends of graduates not being able to attend the ceremony in Anderson Arena because it is too small. Some of them had to watch the ceremony on closed TV somewhere else on campus. I think he mentioned on one occasion that he was working on solving this problem.

I still haven't heard if he apologized for this during this year's ceremony.

All the more reason for a bigger arena.