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St. Peter’s University Seniors Fight Commencement Move From PNC To 'Gym' St. Peter’s University Seniors Fight Commencement Move From PNC To 'Gym'
St. Peter’s University Seniors Fight Commencement Move From PNC To 'Gym' This spring’s St. Peter’s University graduates learned Friday that they won’t be getting their degrees at the massive PNC Bank Center – but, instead, at the school’s on-campus recreational facility. And they're steamed. Brenda Coates, 21, of Linden said she’d knuckled down for four years at the Jesuit university in Jersey City “just for me to find out that I have to graduate in the gym.” The Victor R. Yanitelli, S.J. Recreational Life Center, to be exact, the Montgomery Street home of the Peacocks and Peahens of basketball, swimming and volleyball. SPU commencements for years had been held…

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by Jerry DeMarco