{"id":13913,"date":"2020-04-01T15:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T22:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/13913\/news\/vsa-club-postpones-graduation-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2020-04-05T18:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T01:06:35","slug":"vsa-club-postpones-graduation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjcctimes.com\/es\/13913\/campus-life\/vsa-club-postpones-graduation-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"VSA club postpones graduation ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose City College postponed the Vietnamese Student Association graduation ceremony until the summer because of the coronavirus shelter-in-place order.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t really think we&#8217;re going be able to hold any big types of gatherings,\u201d said SJCC president Rowena M. Tomenang. \u201cWe don\u2019t know how much we can slow down the virus because we are still in the early stages of the acceleration.\u201d<br \/>\nSince everything is switched to a remote format, an online alternative graduation format has been suggested during the shelter-in-place order.<br \/>\n\u201cIt will be a very different celebration,\u201d Tomenang said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have your families and your friends.\u201d Most VSA club members voted against the online celebration and suggested it be postponed until the summer.<br \/>\n\u201cIf I have to choose between doing it online or waiting until the summer, it is better to do it physically in the summer,\u201d said Ly Truong, president of the VSA club.<br \/>\nClub members were also unsure how an online ceremony would compare with an in-person one.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t know how the online format is going to work,\u201d said Tram Nguyen, VSA club secretary. \u201cMy choice is to postpone it until the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside>\n    <div class='pullquote sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f sno-animate'>\n                <div class=\"quotebody\">\n                        <div class='largequote'>&ldquo;<\/div>\n                                    <p class='pullquotetext'>\u201cIf I have to choose between doing it online or waiting until the summer, it is better to do it physically in the summer<\/p>\n                            <p class='quotespeaker'>&mdash; Ly Truong<\/p>\n                        <div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<style>\n.sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f {\n    display: flex;\n    float: left;\n    margin: 30px 30px 30px 0;\n    width: 50%;\n    border-color: #212121;\n    border-top-width: 0px;\n    border-right-width: 0px;\n    border-bottom-width: 0px;\n    border-left-width: 0px;\n}\n.sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f p.pullquotetext,\n.sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f p.quotespeaker {\n}\n.sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f .pullquotepic {\n    width: 33%;\n    margin-left: 25px;\n}\n.sno-story-body .sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f p.pullquotetext {\n    font-size: 22px;\n    line-height: 1.4em;\n}\n.sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f .quotebar {\n    background: #cccccc;\n    flex: 0 0 90px;\n    margin-top: -15px;\n    margin-left: -15px;\n    padding-left: 15px;\n    padding-top: 15px;\n    margin-right: 15px;\n}\n.sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f .largequote {\n\tcolor: #ffffff;\n}\n.sno-pullquote-6a33be4f53a0f .quotebody {\n    width: unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<p>Some students moved to the U.S. after high school in Vietnam so they want to have a physical graduation experience rather than an online version.<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of these students haven&#8217;t been exposed to a U.S. graduation ceremony before,\u201d said Thuy Cao, a Vietnamese counselor who is in charge of the VSA club. \u201cThat is the reason why they would rather have an in-person experience.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose City College postponed the Vietnamese Student Association graduation ceremony until the summer because of the coronavirus shelter-in-place order. \u201cI don\u2019t really think we&#8217;re going be able to hold any big types of gatherings,\u201d said SJCC president Rowena M. 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