Anything but Uniform: Graduation

If you thought I was done, sorry.

I just wanted to post about the fun pagentry of commencement and graduation, which is almost as cool as sports uniforms.

First, we have the hoods. All Penn grads get a red and blue-lined hood with another color symbolizing their field of study. The red is pretty close to the new Penn red, which is good.

Now on to the gowns. I think a real fun part is the academic procession, where professors and administrators all march in, wearing the robes and colors of their alma maters.

Of course, Princeton's gown is particulary garish.

Penn's gowns are red and blue, and I think they look kinda nice.

The colored gowns are only for Ph. D's, though, so they're better because they are rarer.

President Amy Gutmann gets her own special presidential robe, trimmed with gold, and has four stripes on her sleeves instead of the usual doctoral three stripes.

She also got to wear this huge medal with the University seal on it.

Added 5 p.m.: Lastly, the fashion statement of the day that I forgot to mention earlier goes to (I'm pretty sure it was him) Sean Estrada of the football team. While I don't have a picture, the guy who I think was Estrada doffed his cap to reveal a San Francisco 49ers logo taped on the top.

Estrada, of course signed with the Niners last week. Kudos to him already wearing the company logo.

All in all, it was a good time and a colorful event. Thanks for putting up with this section of the Buzz and me in general for the last few years.