Trivial question of the night- why is Obama wearing a blue hood on his robe?

[depakid]

when his advanced degree is in law?

http://www.academicapparel.com/caps/regalia_colors.html

[QC]

1. I was wondering the same thing.

Royal blue is for the Ph.D.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Maybe getting an honorary Ed.D? Just a guess. Don't really know.

[QC]

5. The Ed.D is pale blue.

Law is purple.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. I knew someone who had a JD from Georgetown and his hood

was dark blue.

I know this because I helped hem it. :shrug:

Mine is blue, but not as dark as his, my friend's was.

So, I'm no help at all.

[QC]

11. Mine is royal, the color in the picture. I prefer the darker blue,

which used to be the Ph.D. color. Less flashy. I loathe the Ed.D colors.

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Have to be honest. I don't know what the Ed.D color is.

I never paid much attention. The only person I know with an Ed.D is someone I loathe, so, well, you know, LOL.

[QC]

13. Robin's egg blue.

{shudder}

[depakid]

4. Since ASU didn't grant him an honorary degree, that explanation's out

[NYC_SKP]

35. It's not only about an honorary degree you might get, but also about what you've earned.

Thus the various garb worn by faculty at these affairs.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Does he have an honorary degree in something somewhere?

[rwheeler31]

6. Thats where they hid the ac to keep him cool.

[bunnies]

7. Since when do honorary degrees correlate to actual education?

:shrug:

[depakid]

10. Well, of course they don't- yet

I suppose conferring an honorary degree provides the speaker with an ostensible reason to wear the regalia.

Not sure how those pretensions work.

Maybe he didn't wear the purple because he didn't want to rub it in (as some of us might have liked to).

[avaistheone1]

8. The blue hood is code for

People wake up and fight for single-payer coverage. I am the President, but I can only do so much.
You have to hold my feet to the fire or ELSE.

[vaberella]

14. You've lost your mind...you know that...

:rofl:

[quiller4]

15. It is "phD Blue" because he has a PhD as well as a Juris doctorate n/t

[NYC_SKP]

16. Correct!

The academic hood is comprised of a fabric shell (usually black), "degree velvet" and "school lining".

The velvet of the doctoral hood represents your degree.
For a Ph.D., the degree velvet is rich royal blue, or PhD blue.

[QC]

17. What's his Ph.D. in? n/t

[rug]

20. He doesn't have a PhD.

[QC]

21. I didn't think so. n/t

[quiller4]

26. Oh yes he does. n/t

[QC]

30. What's it in, where did he get it, etc.? n/t

[rug]

31. Quillerology, from the University of Pullingitoutofyourass.

[QC]

36. I figured that little factoid came from the rectal archive,

but I was trying to be nice.

[Starry Messenger]

19. Where are you seeing he has a PhD?

I've never seen that anywhere.

[NYC_SKP]

22. JD rates a purple velvet with gold piping robe. nt

[quiller4]

28. But an SJD, Obama's degree, rates PhD purple

The SJD is one of three law degrees one may earn from Harvard Law, the one that best prepares one to teach law, and the one that Obama earned.

[NYC_SKP]

24. "Jurisprudence" and "Law" in the color chart also rate Purple.

In the color chart in the OP link:

http://www.academicapparel.com/caps/regalia_colors.html

Academic Regalia Inter-Collegiate Colors

Science Gold```````Drab```````````````````````Crimson````````Purple`````````Purple
Industrial Arts````Industrial and Labor Relations`````Journalism`````Jurisprudence`````Law

[Cha]

18. Thanks for

enlightening us.

[Hippo_Tron]

25. Umm no he doesn't

[quiller4]

27. His SJD from Harvard is a PhD. He completed the requirements

for the JD program and then took the additional courses for his SJD thus he wears PhD Blue.

[depakid]

29. Obama doesn't have an SJD

In fact, I don't even think there were SJD's when he graduated law school- only LLM's.

[quiller4]

32. Harvard Law has 3 degree programs

JD- (Juris Doctor) three year program

LLM - one year program mostly for those who obtained a law degree in a foreign country

SJD (Doctor of Juridical Science) requires submission and defense of a dissertation established in the 1920s and revamped in late 1980s three to five years (3 years course work and up to 2 additional years to complete and defend dissertaiton.) Charles Houston, the first Black on the Harvard Law Review recieved his Harvard JD in '22 and SJD in '23. (source Black Presence at Harvard an Overview by Caldwell Titcomb)

[depakid]

34. Must have just started then when Obama graduated- however, his degree is a JD, not and SJD

this bit was all gone over in the primaries, where some tried to claim that he wasn't credentialed enough to to teach.

[OswegoAtheist]

23. Simple.

It's so that he can send a signal to the Illuminati to activate the alien technology at Area 51, which makes all the security strips in American money download your DNA to the tracking satellites that were secretly launched on 9/11, when everyone was distracted by the Atlantean missiles that attacked us.

Oswego "JFK tested. JFK approved." Atheist

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