<p>Any other schools still do this?</p>
<p>[Diploma</a> Information // Commencement // University of Notre Dame](<a href=“http://commencement.nd.edu/students/diploma-information/]Diploma”>http://commencement.nd.edu/students/diploma-information/)</p>
<p>I wonder if you can request a non-sheepskin one if you are a vegetarian?</p>
<p>And yet they’re against sheepskin condoms. ;)</p>
<p>Clearly this is not the only example of how far behind the times Notre Dame is.</p>
<p>The way Obama had them eating out of his hand yesterday, they will probably start harvesting their own sheepskins from sheep embroyos.</p>
<p>Where’s PETA on this issue? Did a lamb die to give Obama his honorary degree? If so, I hope he has the decency to recycle it as a chew-toy for his dog, rather than just tossing it the trash.</p>
<p>Want to know how far the tradition of sheepskin diplomas goes back? It goes back farther than when Biden got his first hair transplant. And that’s a looooong time.</p>
<p>Rice has sheepskin diplomas, and they are huge. You can also request a regular paper one, if you prefer. The sheepskin ones are pricey to have framed, since they have to be carefully wetted and stretched, etc.</p>
<p>Before you gag and vow to never attend, do you or have your ever owned any leather items?</p>
<p>I got a sheepskin diploma at Wake Forest in 1976, but they discontinued them after 1981. It’s done all right in the frame, and I don’t think it was specially prepared or handled.</p>
<p>have your ever owned any leather items? </p>
<p>Besides the usual stuff, shoes, belts, ball-gag harnesses, I went to Australia, and bought one of their omnipresent kangaroo coin purses [Kangaroo</a> scrotum coin purse : Get A Look At This](<a href=“http://www.getalookatthis.com/2007/11/12/kangaroo-scrotum-coinpurse/]Kangaroo”>http://www.getalookatthis.com/2007/11/12/kangaroo-scrotum-coinpurse/). That still doesn’t make it ok to kill a sheep just to get a diploma.</p>
<p>Sheepskin (and any other non-paper sources really) and Latin diplomas should be phased out.</p>
<p>How 'bout we go green and give out virtual diplomas?</p>
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<p>But they’re both so awesome! :)</p>
<p>William and Mary still does Latin diplomas… not sure how that works for computer science majors, but whatever</p>
<p>I’m cool with diplomas in Latin–my undergrad diploma is in Latin (as long as no Latins are harmed in the creation of such diplomas). But the whole sheepskin thing is so 2 millenia ago. I hate to ask which part of the kangaroo they make diplomas from in Australia…my guess is they are particularly good for double majors.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t blame some of the older and more resentful women’s colleges if they planned to do special bi-centennial or 150-year anniversary diplomas on those kangaroo things. Payback is heck.</p>
<p>Not all degrees have diplomas in Latin at William and Mary. I have 3 from there and only the BA is in Latin - the M.ED and the JD are in English.</p>
<p>I wish I could have a sheep skin diploma. Amherst also uses sheep skin.</p>
<p>I have my great aunt’s sheepskin diploma (in Latin) framed and hanging in my hallway. It looks great. She graduated (from Guilford College) in 1918 though.</p>
<p>The University of Wyoming diploma I have is sheepskin with a nice leather cover; I’m not sure if that’s still the case (pun sort of intended).</p>
<p>Hi anxiousmom-
My s’s Rice sheepskin diploma is still rolled up in a tube in his apartment. He’d probably ought to get that thing framed</p>
<p>Wow, who’d of thought so many schools still used sheepskin? Where’s PETA with their red paint?</p>
<p>Thanksgiving:turkeys::Easter : Pigs (ham)::4th of July:whatever the heck hot dogs are made out of::graduation season:baaaaaacherlor’s degrees</p>
<p>From post #2: “I wonder if you can request a non-sheepskin one if you are a vegetarian?”</p>
<p>Ah, you’re not supposed to EAT them. Perhaps you mean vegan?</p>