It is simple.

You are going to look so good on your graduation day — possibly fabulous.

You will have your dress clothes nicely pressed, your hair may be combed for the first time in the four, five or six years it has taken you to get your degree, your makeup will look good and you might even have some new jewelry or a watch from proud parents to show off.

Oh, but wait–your college might not have a place for you to receive your diploma and hear your name called out, which you deserve for all those nights spent at the library or your dorm room when all of your friends were out having a good time living the Animal House lifestyle.

That is what could possibly happen to the future Walter Cronkite’s and Katie Curic’s of the world working hard to get their degrees in communication.

Since the re-modeling of the Raleigh Convention Center — a homage to Soviet Russian style architecture — the department of communication does not have a plan for the commencement of the nearly 2,000 graduates and their extended families who deserve the right to get all the kudos they deserve.

A communication student turning in a “blue card” is told that maybe it is not a great idea to tell Nana and Gramp Gramp that they will be able to come to graduation. Sorry old folks — hope you have grandchildren who do care about you.

To be fair to the Ronald Reagan’s of N.C. State — in case you didn’t get the allusion, he was “The Great Communicator” — we are sure they are working on it, but graduation is only a few months away. A plan should be in order as soon as possible so relatives living far away can make arrangements to see the young kid they bounced on their knees when Back to the Future was a hit movie graduate.

It seems as though a lot of importance is placed on the school commencement ceremony, but in all honesty a lot of students don’t even attend this informal borefest. More emphasis and preparation should be put into the individual college commencements because they are the ones most students really look forward to.

There’s something about walking across a stage — it really excites people.

So get on the ball communication people. Get some communication going with the City of Raleigh, and let’s send our graduates off in style with every member of the family there — even that weird aunt that nobody really likes.