Local college to not give congratulatory handshakes at graduation due to Swine Flu!!

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Swine Flu scares Mott College not to hand congratulatory handshakes at graduation

Swine flu scares prompt Mott Community College to hand out diplomas without congratulatory handshake

FLINT, Michigan -- Swine flu is putting a damper on graduation traditions.

Graduates walking the stage this weekend at Mott Community College will be receiving their diplomas -- but no handshakes.

So congratulations but please keep your hands to yourself.

In a campuswide e-mail, MCC officials acknowledged that discontinuing graduation's symbolic handshake may be a wee much -- but better to be safe than sorry.

Read more:
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/05/swine_flu_scares_prompt_mott_c.html

I'm going to quote part of the first comment to this story as I agree 100%

How a college, supposedly staffed by highly educated individuals can so misunderstand disease contagion amazes me.

 

[MMiz]

I flew into Michigan to attend a graduation at Oakland University, and they read aloud a statement from the "Oakland County Health Department" stating that due to the H1N1 Swine Flu they were not to shake graduates' hands.

 

[lightsandsirens5]

Well, it would seem to me that if you are close enough to shake their hand, you'll catch it from them anyway.