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A fact from Academic regalia of Columbia University appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that beginning in 1763, Columbia University students were required to wear their academic regalia daily in order to steer them away from New York City brothels?

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 15:18, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg wearing her Columbia Law School academic regalia

... that beginning in 1763, Columbia University students were required to wear their academic regalia (pictured) daily in order to steer them away from New York City brothels? Source: [1], p. 83
- ALT1:... that the standard for academic dress in the United States was based off of the academic regalia of Columbia University (pictured)?Source: [2], p.16

Reviewed: Cornelia Chase Brant

Created by Alphalfalfa (talk). Self-nominated at 04:47, 13 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Date and length fine. However @Alphalfalfa:, The original needs an inline citation and doesn't mention brothels. QPQ done, no close paraphrasing. Picture licence seems OK but I'm not too familiar with that tag. Just needs that sorting and please ping me when its done. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 10:35, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

- @The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) Done! alphalfalfa^(talk) 10:50, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - The original good to go then. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 11:02, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Columbia Regalia

While the picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Columbia Regalia is interesting (and maybe should be in the RBG page), I'm wondering if it should be removed here. Columbia Law changed its first law degree from an LLB to a JD in 1969 (see Juris_Doctor#Creation_of_the_J.D._and_major_common_law_approaches_to_legal_education. RBG, who graduated before that date, was awarded an LLB (Bachelors of laws) (see her page linked above) and wore the appropriate regalia at that time. The current Columbia JD regalia is the same as the PhD regalia with a purple Law hood (see e.g., this page of pictures of graduates from 2019 at which JDs are wearing doctoral regalia (only the LLMs wear other regalia, and still not that worn by RBG)).

Thus the current state of columbia law regalia looks nothing like the picture, and on a page for columbia regalia is somewhat misleading without a notation that this version of the regalia is now superseded. Either the photo should be marked to make clear that she is wearing the old regalia (a change I'll make now) or be removed.

JustAnotherNewYorker (talk) 19:46, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]