Graduation Students have been asked not to throw their mortar board in the air in case they hurt someone. Its said that bosses at a university want to stop the age-old tradition of gleefully hurling their Mortar Board in the air on graduation day because they have said that someone could be “blinded or even worse” if one of the flat topped hats fell on them.

Anglia Ruskin University chiefs were yesterday branded “off their heads” and “potty”. Frankie Whiffen who is the Student Union president said that “It’s outrageous and puts a dampener on the big day. It’s like banning graduation pictures outdoors in case an apple or a pigeon falls on someone’s head. Who is going to go round stopping it anyway — the hat police?”

The university where 3,500 students graduate from campuses in Cambridge and Chelmsford, Essex, said that it made the request because one person was taken to hospital after being hit seven years ago. Come on that was seven years ago has anything happened since?

The tradition is thought to date back from 1912 when midshipmen at a US naval academy were first given officers’ caps. Its said that they were so overjoyed at “graduating” they throw their caps in the air.

Are you just about to Graduate? Will you be throwing your hat in the air?

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