- A local college graduate is gaining popularity all over social media. 
 
 Daivon Reeder's photo has gone viral, but, it's his caption - that's catching everyone's attention. 
 
 "I was just sitting around and thinking about the things I went through to get here and to graduate," said Reeder. "That one thing stood out to me." 
 
 Daivon Reeder is getting ready to graduate from Eastern Michigan University with a major in Criminal Justice and a minor in Military Science, but if he listened to his stepfather he may not be here today. 
 
 "I kind of heard that and I was like ok, I'll show you," Reeder said. 
 
 As graduation day neared, Reeder tweeted - "My stepdad told me it was pointless to go to orientation I wasn't going to graduate anyway. 4 years later he is in jail and I am well..." 
 
 "I looked at the picture and the emoji of me laughing I thought that was an ironic situation - we are in two different situations in our lives," Reeder said. "Look what you said and look where you are at." 
 
 
 
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 His tweet has now gone viral - retweeted and shared thousands of times - with people congratulating Reeder for proving his stepdad wrong. 
 
 "I literally tweeted, I went to sleep, my phone was dead," he said. "I charged it and my phone went boom boom boom. I was like, Oh my gosh, what's going on. It's exciting, it really is." 
 
 But the 22-year-old from Detroit who is the first in his family to go to college, faced plenty of obstacles along the way. 
 
 "I came here on a scholarship," he said. "I ended up losing it, and then I had to go to basic training for the Army and I came back to work hard to get my scholarship back. 
 
 "I had family problems, I'm the oldest of all my brothers and sisters so I had to take care of my brothers and sisters back home. And I am a black male student in a predominately white university so that's a struggle in itself." 
 
 Reeder, who works two jobs to support his family, says he didn't have a father figure growing up. Instead of being angry, he and nine students formed an organization to mentor young boys, teach them what he had to learn the hard way. 
 
 "Living our values - live, learn, teach, knowing I was living life making mistakes," he said. "But I was learning from them able to teach someone else." 
 
 Reeder says he beat the statistics. 
 
 On Saturday, donning his cap and gown Reeder will walk with his entire EMU class and officially accept his diploma. 
 
 Reeder may be making headlines now - but it's clear his story is far from over. 
 
 "Just because somebody says you can't do something seems hard or it's not the norm, or it’s something your family is not used to doing, you can be the change," he said. "You can be the difference." ||||| An outraged mother’s Facebook post is going viral after the Michigan woman posted a photo of her son’s severe allergic reaction to peanut butter, which, she claims, was rubbed on his face while he was asleep at an off-campus fraternity back in October. 
 
 Teresa Seely said her now 19-year-old son, Andrew, just told her about the incident at the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity at Central Michigan University (CMU) during his first semester as a freshman after she saw one of his friends post about it on Facebook Tuesday. 
 
 Teresa Seely/Facebook 
 
 “We found out that our son was a victim of a hazing incident,” Seely wrote in a post that has since been shared by more than 1,400 people. “This is a picture of what they did to him. He has a deadly peanut allergy and they rubbed peanut butter on his face while he was passed out.” 
 
 The concerned mom said she has notified the university, local police and consulted with an attorney in response to the news. 
 
 “My heart just sank to my stomach when is saw [the photos],” Andrew’s dad, Paul Seely, told CBS News. “As time goes on, the reality sets in -- he could have died. He really could have. If peanut butter had gotten into his mouth it would have been dire.” 
 
 The family says they’ve learned a professor took him took him to the campus health clinic for treatment. 
 
 Heather Smith, director of communications at Central Michigan University, told CBS News the school found out about the alleged hazing through social media on Wednesday. 
 
 “Obviously this is very concerning and we take these things very seriously,” said Smith, adding that it’s a potentially a criminal matter. 
 
 The Office of Student Conduct has already contacted Seely and provided her with information on how to file a police report, Smith said. The Mt. Pleasant Police Department told CBS News Thursday afternoon that the October incident has not yet been reported to police, and there’s currently no active investigation. 
 
 Andrew left the school at the end of the semester and transferred to a different school, which his parents didn’t identify. Smith says Andrew would have to directly contact the Office of Student Conduct in order for the school to proceed with an investigation. 
 
 “He’s been very emotional about this as he understands how serious this is,” the teen’s father said. “He can’t get his head around it. Its really affected him -- he had to get away.” 
 
 Smith said the fraternity involved, Alpha Chi Rho, was officially disbanded on the campus in 2011. 
 
 “[They are] not a recognized fraternity at CMU,” Smith said. “They were removed from campus in 2011 for hazing.” 
 
 According to Smith, the group appealed to be recognized as a fraternity at the school last fall, but the request was denied by CMU’s Interfraternity Council. Andrew’s parents said their son, then 18, rushed Alpha Chi Rho in the fall and accepted a bid from “what he believed was a fraternity” weeks prior to the incident. 
 
 The national fraternity of Alpha Chi Rho confirmed to CBS News in a statement via email that there is not currently an Alpha Chi Rho chapter or colony at CMU. 
 
 “Prior to this incident, when we learned that a small group of individuals had been improperly operating under our name, we promptly sent a letter to these men to stop all activity or representation of our fraternity,” the organization said. 
 
 The national fraternity group said the individuals involved were not members and acted independently. 
 
 “Alpha Chi Rho does not condone this type of behavior -- or any form of hazing -- and it stands in conflict with our mission to cultivate men of character, honor and integrity,” they said. 
 
 While Andrew’s parents are openly voicing their concerns and raising awareness about the seriousness of allergies, the student involved is claiming there has been a misunderstanding. 
 
 NBC Detroit affiliate WDIV spoke to the student who spread the peanut butter on the teen’s face and he said it wasn’t hazing -- it was a harmless prank. 
 
 “It was just a joke trying to be funny and put it on his face,” the student told WDIV. “We didn’t know he was allergic. It was just college students being kids.” 
 
 But Andrew’s dad doesn’t believe that to be the case. 
 
 “Andrew made it very clear and aware to everyone in that house that he had a peanut allergy,” said Paul Seely, explaining that Andrew carries an Epi-Pen and Benadryl tablets with him at all times. “He told them they couldn’t eat anything with peanuts around him. He wears a medical bracelet. For this individual to think that it was just a joke is hard for us to comprehend.” 
 
 “That’s a form of protection on his part to say that he was just joking,” he added. “If the frat guys did this and they saw him having a reaction why didn’t they call 911?” 
 
 The parents said their attorney will work with the local police and that Andrew plans to give a statement to both the school and authorities. 
 
 “We will be seeking justice for Andrew and we’ll hold the parties we feel are responsible accountable for what happened to him,” Paul Seely said. ||||| JACKSONVILLE — It took Allan Gieger Jr. 10 minutes to write his Craigslist post and share it on Facebook. He was angry, but he also was hesitant. 
 
 Should he have shamed his only child like that? Then again, his 18-year-old, a young man who shares his father's name, knew better than to embarrass him by walking off a job with no notice. 
 
 "I have my son's truck up for sale that I bought for him as his first car," he wrote. "He thinks it's cool to drive around with his friends smokin dope and acting all thug and especially not showing me and my wife the respect that we deserve," the post read, offering a discount to anyone who lived on the Westside so that his son could see the car on the streets. 
 
 Immediately, he felt regret, and he thought about deleting the post. No, his wife told him, we have to do this. 
 
 His friends shared the post, their friends shared the post and within days, as one of his friends wrote, "You've gone viral, my man." On Friday, a Westsider put down a deposit. 
 
 When Allan Gieger III first saw the post, he was angry. He knew he'd done wrong, and he knew he shouldn't be smoking pot, but he felt as though his dad had gone out of his way to make fun of him. But more and more people shared his dad's post and declared him father of the year. You're lucky to have such a dad, someone said, and that made the younger Gieger think. Later he would explain, "I'm just kind of a hard head and it never really clicked in until now." 
 
 He and his dad had always had a good relationship, and he knew his dad saw himself in his son. But he had been a disappointment lately. Though he never got into trouble with the law and he planned to graduate from an alternative high school, his dad could smell the pot in the truck. 
 
 The final straw, Gieger Jr. said, last week when his son missed two days of work and then his wife dropped the teen off at his job. Not long after, Gieger III came home and said he'd been fired for no reason. 
 
 "The way I feel toward my dad," Gieger III said, "me and him, we've always had a good relationship, a good connection." 
 
 But that doesn't change the fact the car is still being sold. ||||| PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — One camel, two luxury cars, three dates, a total of six custom made outfits, along with food and fun for everyone who attended made Johnny Eden Jr.’s Dubai themed pre-prom block party one fit for a king, and with a 25,000 price tag, you might say it was fit for a sultan. 
 
 “At first I was like, it was too much, I don’t really like a lot of attention but it’s worth it,” Johnny Eden Jr. said. “It was epic, man. I had my family out here. That’s all I really cared about is my family being out here. My mom did her thing, she was the real MVP.” 
 
 Saudia Shuler, Johnny’s mom, says her son is graduating from Simon Gratz Mastery Charter with a 3.8 Grade point average, and is a standout out on the basketball team and she wanted to do something special to reward him. 
 
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 “I was just trying to pay honor my son, because he is such a good kid,” she said. 
 
 “He did everything I required of him, throughout his whole entire life from first grade all the way up to 12th grade straight A’s but always get a B in something dumb like gym,” she said. 
 
 Shuler says over the last few years, she fought and beat cancer, and suffered from a stroke. 
 
 “I was on my death bed a few years ago, she said. “My son took it real hard. He believed in Allah so bad. He is Muslim, I am not. So that is what kept him strong.” 
 
 So being able to send her son to prom is something she never thought she would see. 
 
 “I’m still going through health problems. I said, if I ever live to make it I’m going to put on a big prom and a big graduation for my son and I just prayed and I hoped I got to see my son go to graduation and go on prom, because I didn’t believe I was going to make it,” she said. 
 
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 Shuler says she wanted to use the party to honor Johnny’s religion, and it is a move that’s getting mixed reviews. 
 
 “People think I was making a mockery of his religion. No, I was honoring the religion and honoring my son because that is what kept him strong for me,” she said. 
 
 She says bringing Dubai to North Philadelphia was not an easy feat, and was a process that was years in the making 
 
 “I saved for my son’s prom, and yes I splurged on my son,” she said. 
 
 Shuler says she originally was going to take Johnny to Dubai but she says by bringing Dubai to North Philadelphia would be able to make sure the whole neighborhood could enjoy the experience.
– In a moment of reflection on the eve of graduating from Eastern Michigan University, student Daivon Reeder struck a chord on social media with a tweet that has since gone viral. Alongside a photo in his cap and gown, Reeder wrote Thursday: "My step dad told me it was pointless to go to orientation, I wasn't going to graduate.....4 years later he in jail & I'm well....," followed by a line of laughing emojis. Hours later, the tweet began trending in Detroit, catching the attention of Twitter as well as the media. Local Detroit station WDIV 4 featured a segment on Reeder, who graduated Saturday with a degree in criminal justice and a minor in military science. He told the station that after losing his academic scholarship, those words pushed him even harder to succeed. "[I have] the average, typical, inner-city Detroit boy story," Reeder, 22, says. "I grew up constantly moving houses." The eldest of four, Reeder said his mother struggled to make ends meet for his family, and his stepfather was not always in the picture. After his stepdad made the comment about graduating, "I kind of heard that and I was like OK, I'll show you," Reeder tells Fox 8. "I'm just a first generation college kid from Detroit trying to beat the odds," he tells BuzzFeed News. "I guess people can relate to a humble beginning." The tweet had more than 600,000 likes and 148,000 retweets as of Monday afternoon. (This tweet made waves for a different reason.)