{"id":46715,"date":"2025-03-23T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=46715"},"modified":"2025-03-23T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T15:09:44","slug":"troubling-tassel-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=46715","title":{"rendered":"Troubling Tassel Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following yesterday’s detasseling BLOTT<\/a>, we would be remiss if we failed to relay the tassel confusion that occurred at Texas A&M University<\/strong> several years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the official Event Coordinator for Texas A&M<\/strong>‘s commencement, Callahan ‘Cactus Jack’<\/em> Kleberg had one job<\/em>: order tassels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being an agricultural school, Cactus Jack<\/em> thought they were corn <\/strong>tassels. You could see how anyone could make this mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cactus Jack realized his mistake then the 18 wheeler pulled up.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But Aggies are good natured and enterprising. They decided to embrace the tassel, and designed their graduation ensemble accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even the professors played along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The trend caught on. Their arch-rival, the University of Texas at Austin<\/strong>, got caught up in the trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yearbook photos reflected this trend….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following yesterday’s detasseling BLOTT, we would be remiss if we failed to relay the tassel confusion that occurred at Texas A&M University several years ago. As the official Event Coordinator for Texas A&M‘s commencement, Callahan ‘Cactus Jack’ Kleberg had one job: order tassels. Being an agricultural school, Cactus Jack thought they were corn tassels. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[120,81,37,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-fashion","category-scholarship-erudition","category-texas"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46761,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46715\/revisions\/46761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}