Save for a few peaceful patches in the commencement program—when the concert chorale sang, when the brass band played, when the the charismatic chaplain called graduates and guests to prayer—students at the historically black Bethune-Cookman University’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday clamored and shouted steady expressions of dissent.

Protest has been mounting since Bethune-Cookman president Edison O. Jackson announced last week that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would be this year’s commencement speaker. And at the ceremony Wednesday afternoon, it was President Trump’s name—unavoidably peppered throughout the dean’s formal introduction of DeVos—that set off the crowd.