Commencement EPIC FAIL.

[KamaAina]

Spot it and win a prize!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Just another part of Ladybird's Beautification Campaign.

[rug]

2. Is that Charles Whitman's tower?

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/whitman/index_1.html

[Archae]

3. I think so.

That was the first thing I thought of.

[rug]

6. That's worse than the typo!

[TexasTowelie]

4. When I worked for the state government, I always use to check

to make certain that the "L" was there when needed.

[AnneD]

10. Same here....

it is not picked up by spell check.

[Chan790]

5. It's been my experience that UT students often care more about those affairs than their studies. n/t

[bluesbassman]

7. Damn those Brazilian exchange students!

[Bake]

8. Well, you can't blame the spell-checker

Bake

[ceile]

9. Beyond epic fail

First, no one proof reads it. Second, a pic of the tower in broad daylight? No. It's one thing when it's lit up orange, but in daylight it's kinda creepy...

[TexasTowelie]

11. Are you getting freaked out because of the connection to the Whitman shootings

or did you fall for the tall tale that the UT Tower looks like an owl because it was designed by a Rice University graduate?

I agree that the oversight to produce the commencement was horrible, but obviously it will be the subject of jokes for many years to come. The interesting take on this story will come later when we find out how many undergrads in the School of Pubic Affairs ask to get into the graduate program.

[baldguy]

12. C'mon, if you thought about all those stories you're heard about LBJ....

...you'd realize this is entirely appropriate.

[undeterred]

13. There's Pubic Affairs and then there's Pubic Transportation

If you're a bug of sorts, the two are related.



In Chicago they had to do a major reprinting because of the latter mistake.

[sakabatou]

14. I don't know

So tell this young whipper snapper what it is.