When the University of Texas at Austin was told it had a pubic relations emergency, for once they weren't going to have to fire another tenured professor. For their class of 2012, one of its departments had accidentally distributed a commencement program congratulating the students on graduating from the "Lyndon B. Johnson School of Pubic Affairs" -- weirdly appropriate, given how much the namesake president liked talking about his dick.
University of Texas at AustinSome might call it a typo, but we prefer the word “Legacy.”
Worse, before the mistake was spotted, the pamphlets had already been pubically distributed to the parents and friends attending the graduation. Just imagine an auditorium full of dads, half of them going red in the face and the other half climbing over attendees to high-five their sons, and you get the basic gist of the situation.
Like with all pubic affairs, this landed the administration in a sticky situation. New programs were printed and distributed, but the damage had already been done. The dean of the LBJ School of Crotch Concerns, not a pubic man himself, quickly apologized and said it was "beyond embarrassing" -- as all pubic mistakes are. He also offered the school's sincerest apologies for the spelling mistake on Twitter, in a tweet that misspelled the word egregious as "eggregious." (The tweet has since been removed). Still, it's still better to get egg on your face than the messy aftermath of pubic affairs.
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