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PURPLE
Stay with tradition on graduation

There’s such a thing as purple pride, but this might be a touch too much.

Margaret Kelly, director of special projects, sent out an e-mail to 2,000 seniors Monday asking them to vote on whether or not they would like to change the color of the cap and gown at graduation from the traditional black to purple.

The move would include tacking on an extra $5.50 because the purple material would be a higher quality fabric and would have a customized color of purple.

And not just any purple — TCU purple.

The reasoning for this idea is understandable. TCU is very closely tied to the color and some people feel being the only university to have an all-purple graduation would set the school apart.

Well, being different isn’t always a good thing.

TCU purple is a great color — on flags, floral decorations, binders and Hyperfrogs.

However, TCU purple was not meant to be glaring off the backs and heads of hundreds of slowly swaying seniors, who will probably be burning up in the higher-quality fabric.

Dashes of purple are fine on the tassel or cords seniors wear.

Kelly also said students will be able to keep the cap and tassel, whereas before, students could only keep the tassel.

What in the world are hundreds of college graduates going to do with a bright purple graduation cap?

So unless future alumni dress up as college graduates for Halloween every year, the hat will sit in a box with all of the other memorabilia that nobody can use.