After the ceremony, keep your cap and tassel as your graduation memento. Drop your gown in the collection box (located on the way to the parking lot) to donate it for reuse. Greener Grads recovers, reuses, repurposes, and recycles all gowns.
A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that coalition. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament.
ministry - building where the business of a government department is transacted. building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; there was a three-story building on the corner; it was an imposing edifice.