Cap and Gown
It's of course that time of the year. Unfortunately, I will not be able to do attend graduation at AU this year (my first) since my sister is graduating the very same day from Bryn Mawr. But I hae been thinking about this issue for a while. I really wish we had a proper cap and gown for our phd. Being the only doctoral program at Nova, we don't have our own school's colors, or gown. Other schools do. The generic cap and gown we got from Nova for graduation had one major virtue: it was free. But it is alrady falling apart.
Is there anyway we could start a tradition of cap and gowns? I was thinking about buying a typical philosophy phd online — with the blue stripes — to have for good, but it'd be nice to have a nova one. Any thoughts?
(By the way, Why is there a comment period? Is there dairy in comment for them to expire?)
Is there anyway we could start a tradition of cap and gowns? I was thinking about buying a typical philosophy phd online — with the blue stripes — to have for good, but it'd be nice to have a nova one. Any thoughts?
(By the way, Why is there a comment period? Is there dairy in comment for them to expire?)
Posted by Farhang Erfani on
Monday May 8, 2006 at 8:16pm
I have been thinking about this issue as well, since we had graduation already (two Saturdays ago--it was so early because we ended early to help fit in our extra hurricane-inspired makeup semester). I was lazy and forgot to either buy or rent a gown--luckily, I was able to wear my girlfriend's (she has a JD from Tulane--JDs wear doctoral robes--and they give their students the cheap ones), although it barely came below my knees.
In any event, I figure I will buy one in the next year--I had planned on getting the PhD type (black w/blue velvet) that you mention, but had also thought about a navy blue gown...
p.s. As for the comment period, I think I can take care of that. Also, congratulations to your sister...
I, too, have thought about our lame PhD gown situation. I'm certainly willing to help with efforts from on campus. I know that Univ of London robes are pink, which suits me well. We really should have something distinctive, however.
There is one Villanova cap. That's the one that Caputo, Doody and other higher ups wear. It has Villanova's colors. Is that restricted to people who have other people's names attached to their -- endowed chairs? Curious...
Either way, I expect it would not be cheap. But it is something we will wear every year and I prefer something both solid and also not just plain. Our hood is obviously different than other faculty; it'd be nice to have Nova colors for the gown. For the cap, could we have something rounder and not that cardboard pointy thing we have now?
my two-cents worth is this: although I purchased the standard black-with-blue-velvet gown, I wish we had a dark blue gown with white trim and bars. This would look pretty sweet, and the tam could be in the dark blue, possibly with white accents. I think it would be expensive to get them, but if we plan on going to commencements regularly (we have two a year here), it might be worth it. I'm always so jealous of the cool-gown crew...
Nova Robe
Here is the problem, as I see it--this might be the robe (as Farhang mentions) that endowed chairs wear, or that honorary doctorate people wear. In this case, it might be kind of bogus for us to wear them.
we don't have picture-posting capability here, do we? i have a picture of jack in that special navy gown with white velvet stripes (and black tam) from my commencement, but i don't have a personal website up to post it to -- if anyone has one that we can post it on for folks to take a look at, i'm happy to email it and you can link to it. just let me know.
so, my considered opinion is that our hoods would look very nice with either the black gown with blue velvet, or the blue gown with white velvet.
Oh, and as the new post shows, pics can be uploaded and posted.