<p>So, Notre Dame is NOT the only school to use sheepskin diplomas–perhpas the thread needs to be changed/updated?</p>
<p>^^^^ why would the thread title need to be changed?? If ND still uses sheepskin, then the title is accurate. The title doesnt say it is the ONLY U to still use sheepskin. If the poor animals are already ending up on someone’s dinner plate as rack of lamb or lambchops or leg of lamb or whatever, then the use of their skin is less waste and more use of the animal parts. Might be distasteful to some (sorry for the pun) but it is not impractical.</p>
<p>My college diploma is in a drawer. My law school diploma is in the closet and has never been out of the tube in came in.</p>
<p>Sheepskin, fine vellum, 3D hologram, what difference does it really make?</p>
<p>My diplomas are in a closet too - this thread prompted me to dig them out last night. When I practiced law, I had two of them hanging in my office, but that was over 20 years ago. The only time I think about diplomas is when I am in a doctor’s office and I want to know his/her pedigree. I do judge doctors by their diplomas.</p>
<p>Yes. Wabash College.</p>
<p>leather is not a byproduct of the slaughterhouse industry although cows used for their milk may end up as a belt
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<p>I love the Rice diploma. My daughter was going to get it framed. Not sure if she ever did.</p>
<p>Silly me, I thought that “sheepskin” was just an expression. Well, I guessed that colleges used real sheepskins many years ago but it surprised me that some still do. My diploma as well as H’s are on nice heavy paper (and are in English, although Latin would have been cool).</p>