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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 02 2019, @12:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the blinky-blowup dept.

Animated arduino powered graduation caps are pretty common, but perhaps not in Florida. When one recent Florida grad placed such a device on his mortar board, the police incited a (minor) bomb scare, confiscated the cap mounted display, and the bomb squad destroyed it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/student-causes-bomb-scare-at-graduation-with-decorative-ensemble/ar-AAFchE5

Can Cevik, a computer engineering graduate, said he was just trying to be festive earlier this week when he taped a battery-powered digital device to his graduation cap, displaying the message "FIU 2019." ... "Just to clear things up, my cap had an Arduino Uno with a 7-segment display on it and was powered by a 9V battery; it was not an explosive," he said. ... They eventually cleared him to enter the venue, but only after providing him with a new -- plain -- graduation cap. ... Police then called the bomb squad and destroyed the original cap. ... FIU Police Captain Delrish Moss told local reporters that officers acted out of an abundance of caution.

"While that seems very innocent and looks very innocent, it also has the potential to scare people," Moss told local Fox affiliate WSVN. "A police officer spotted it and took the necessary precautions."

This article has a picture of the cap (which appears to be a pretty low effort affair). https://www.waaytv.com/content/national/513449462.html


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Friday August 02 2019, @01:56PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 02 2019, @01:56PM (#874614)

    Higher Ed used to be for kids of royalty to get them to do something useful between wars until they were old enough to take something over. So it was high status.

    Then it converted to vocational training for ultra high paying jobs. Hey ladies this is where you get your Mrs. degree when you meet a nice EE in 1960. So it was high status.

    Now higher ed is supposed to accept everyone regardless of capability and issue degrees to match, so its turning ultra low status like bragging about attending adult day care. Future of higher ed is not so bright.

    Going to be interesting to see how low status stuff (like meaningless degrees, low IQ grads, and exploded arduino art installations) separates from legacy high status stuff like rich kids and future doctors. My guess is some name changes are in the future.

    My gut level guess is high status kids will go internships because they don't need a job to pay the bills (mom and dad are rich) and frankly being the assistant to the VP of a bank is worth more on the job market than a basket weaving degree with no experience. Sort of a squire / knight relationship. Meanwhile I think lower status kids with high status professions (dr, etc) will bifurcate into something like pilot or medical training today where future programmers or electrical engineers or accountants will do an online version the equivalent of med school or pilot ground school, then once they graduate online they'll get (low) paid apprenticeships for a couple years till some trade union of programmers gives them their ticket.

    My ideas sound reasonable but always remember that U.K. dude who paraphrased something like the dumbass americans always try everything else before they do the right thing.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 02 2019, @02:38PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday August 02 2019, @02:38PM (#874639)

    ultra high paying jobs

    What fantasy land do you live in? Maybe med school graduates who land coveted specialty practices and lottery winners in the law and business programs... For the 99%, not so much.

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    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 02 2019, @06:02PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 02 2019, @06:02PM (#874746) Journal

      Have you looked at the furnishings of the School of Business classrooms? I think you might be surprised at how opulent they are.

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    • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday August 02 2019, @06:03PM (1 child)

      by hemocyanin (186) on Friday August 02 2019, @06:03PM (#874748) Journal

      Compared to working at McDonalds, the salaries look great. When you then subtract the ongoing student loan burden however, McDonalds doesn't sound so bad.

      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 02 2019, @06:52PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday August 02 2019, @06:52PM (#874785)

        Pickup work as a journeyman apprentice for any kind of construction, plumbing, HVAC, electrician, auto mechanic, etc. has much lower cost and time of education and pretty good hourly rates, with just as much "upward mobility" to management and business ownership potential as the average MBA graduate has.

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