college helpful?

[LorenB]

LorenB, when were you at Purdue?  I was there from 65 to 69.

Cedarman,

Interestingly enough, I was there from 1965 to January 1970.  I graduated one semester late.  While I was there I did two things that you might have heard about.  One was that I was on the Purdue Drill Team.  The other was that a group of us cut classes for about three days prior to the IU/Purdue game and went to IU to steal John Purdue. 

They laid an effigy of John Purdue out in their Memorial Union while Purdue laid out an effigy of Miss Indiana.  We would each try to steal the other school's effigy.  We had only limited success.  We managed to get the shirt (about the only part of the body besides the head), while they managed to protect the papier mache head.  We still took it (the shirt) to the pep rally before the IU game. 

Loren

[Ron Wenrich]

For what its worth:

Nov, 2008 unemployment was at 6.7%.  For those with less than a high school diploma, that rate was 10.8%.  For high school grads, 6.8%.  For those with some college, 5.5%.  For those with at least a bachelors degree, 3.1%.

It doesn't make you immune to unemployment, but it sure seems to help.