Youth Suicide Statistics. 1  Suicide is the SECOND leading cause of death for ages 10-24. 2  Suicide is the SECOND leading cause of death for college-age youth and ages 12-18.  More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, COMBINED.
Convocation Ceremonies. Convocation ceremonies are typically sponsored by a college, school, or department. At most convocations, undergraduate and graduate students are individually recognized, which is not possible at the larger campuswide Commencement ceremony.
(redirected from standing on ceremony) Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal. expression of shared feelings and attitudes through more or less formally ordered actions of an essentially symbolic nature performed on appropriate occasions. A ceremony involves stereotyped bodily movements, often in relation to objects possessing symbolic meaning.