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...slush, agonizing over term papers and eating Barbecue Beef in the Lowell House dining room. What really gets them, though--what really sets their teeth gnashing--is that those days were so recent. That's just the way it happens, for some people. Before he could hang up his mortarboard, Rich was writing an article about Daniel Ellsberg for Esquire magazine and getting ready to leave for Europe on a traveling fellowship. His classmate Michael Sacks, a Loebie whose performance in The Promise Rich remembers "liking," quickly starred in George Roy Hill's film of Slaughterhouse Five. Another classmate, Bonnie...
Many colleges still consider virtually any form of advertising as vulgar as graffiti on a mortarboard. At Loyola, the singing commercial seemed to please the faculty but it outraged the student newspaper. Labeling the pitch "degrading and embarrassing," an editorial declared: "Loyola is not a used-car dealership, or a carry-out Chinese restaurant or a discount department store. For the sake of St. Ignatius, aren't we a university...
...hundred students, professors, and clergy from the Divinity School marched down the Freedom Trail yesterday morning to protest "the perversion of our national heritage into a convenant with death." The procession carried a coflin draped with an American flag on which were three hats an American hat, a mortarboard, and a Vietnamese...
...Dadaist who is still alive and well and living in Paris, transformed his hat block into a blockhead by adding dark glasses and a scholar's mortarboard. L'Imposteur reads the caption at the bottom. Martin Carey, a fine-line draftsman of frogs, insects and flowers, turned his block on its side, decorated it with butterflies and found, much to his surprise, that it reminded him of both an owl and a soldier's helmet. Jasper Johns coated his block with metallic plaster-and his dealer put a price of $9,000 on it. Andy Warhol stripped...
...graduates marched out, one removed his tasseled mortarboard and put on an Army fatigue hat to symbolize what awaits many of his classmates. Parents bearing graduation presents and corsages flocked around their children, posing for photographs. A few were in tears. Most smiled broadly at the realization of unlikely dreams...