@ricci @StumpyTheMutt @steve @dan I'm also salty that I missed Buddy Guy as the honorary degree recipient by 1 year

@ricci @steve @dan @sharon that or cooking biker crank in a sousaphone

@steve @dan @ricci @sharon "trolling service academies for fun and profit: an ivy guide"

@steve @dan @ricci @sharon as someone who was nearly tricked into being a faculty advisor (for the school quidditch team) that has a strong possibility of ending in chaos

@steve @dan @ricci @sharon is there like a group of outlaw band directors like 1% bikers. do they have the diamond patch on their uniforms?

@dan @ricci @steve @sharon at least it wasn't the Stanford band recreating the Irish Potato Famine on the field at Notre Dame.

@dan @ricci @steve I did take a class in the old Liberal Arts Core that allowed you to do the final in the medium of your major. I watched a dance performance nominally centered around the assassination of Tzar Nicholas the II. so that is not outside the realm of possibility

@ricci @steve @dan full disclosure I never got mine re-printed (nor do I think I ever actually picked it up, the leather thing we were handed at graduation was a rather tasteless form to donate money as an alumni). I should do that next time I'm on campus

@ricci @steve @dan my both alma mater and employer for teaching had a problem with their old diplomas and, specifically, the Chinese government. they were very avant-garde for a diploma and a lot of international students had trouble convincing their home governments that they were real. eventually they changed to a more traditional design and students could pay to have theirs re-printed.

@dan the Chinese consulate general in Chicago is, essentially, across the street from the former Rock and Roll McDonald's which would have added a nice level of absurdity on top that feels DeLillo esque