Crow causes time change in grad ceremony

Zac Estrada Rosales
News Editor
The time for the 2008 senior graduation ceremony has been moved to 3 p.m. on Thursday, June 12. Students were to walk down the hill at 6 p.m. that day.
Assistant Principal Hodges stated, “the time was changed because of a conflict with a Bowl performance. The change has advantages, that being more time for grads to be with families before departing for Grad nite at Disneyland.”
According to Santa Barbara Bowl director Sam Scranton, the change had more to do with Sheryl Crow’s performance schedule. He stated that Sheryl Crow could only come to Santa Barbara on June 12. Knowing that this is graduation time, he didn’t think the school “would go for it.” Scranton said he then contacted Assistant Superintendent Paul Turnbull, who contacted Principal Mark Capritto.
An agreement with the Bowl and the school district allows concert attendees to park at SBHS for a fee.
Scranton said he and Capritto worked out a deal in which SBHS will receive $5,000 to go towards an undisclosed arts program on campus. “The actual beneficiaries are to be determined through conversations with Mark Capritto,” said Scranton. This would be in addition to the standard rate the district receives for using the school to park cars for Bowl events. The parking attendants for the Bowl will provide parking services for the graduation ceremony.
The Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation will donate $140,000 this year to arts programs in Santa Barbara.