Possibly stupid idea

Date: Apr 29, 2004

Possibly stupid idea

Date: Apr 29, 2004

I like quiet, subtle protests! The only potential problem I see is that enough people would be able to rent robes in time if they don't already own them

Date: Apr 29, 2004

I'm sure you could borrow some from the USM faculty who aren't attending the Spring commencement. There's plenty of time for that attempt.

Date: Apr 29, 2004

Send out an SOS. THere are those of us who won't be using the gown for that ceremony who could share.

Date: Apr 29, 2004

I would need a master's gown, don't most docs have their own?

Of course we will be outing ourselves, not that it would hurt me particularly.

Date: Apr 29, 2004

I know that this has been discussed a while back, but I'd like to raise the issue of whether there should be protests of some sort at graduation. I understand that many students and their parents don't want to have "their day" interrupted by anything, and I respect that. But I'm going to have a hard time going to graduation and pretending that nothing has happened here and everything is okay. Thoughts?

Date: Apr 29, 2004

Maybe not protests, per se. I would not advocate anything to take attention away from the graduates and the ceremonies. A lot goes into finishing a degree anymore. (At my ug commencement, long ago, my 3-year old kept asking, "but why do Mommies have to grad-u-ate?") But possibly, if my cap and gown idea won't work, some sort of button that is not OVERTLY anti-Thames, but is PRO something else, like "I support the Liberal Arts" -- something that won't get people removed from the arena.

I do not know how I would be able to sit and listen to SFT speak, but hey, he has to stand there and face the phalanx of faculty members!