. . . Some unnamed official canceled it . . .
One time at my old high school some event was cancelled by an "unnamed official" . . . but the students continued with it anyway.
When asked about it, they said "WHO, exactly, cancelled it? We don't know, and we don't follow instructions unless we know who's giving them. For all we know, it was some student from another school. Or his little sister."
Of course, even in Chicago, back in the '70s the schools weren't as PC or woke as some are today.