FUN FACT: The University of Oregon is actually where they filmed “Animal House.” No university approached would touch the script, but Oregon’s president had been burned once before, when as an administrator at USC, the school had withheld permission from the makers of “The Graduate.” So he said carpe diem and full speed ahead. His only condition: that his name not appear in the finished film.

So, you see, the University of Oregon is even a better fit as home base for broadcasts of my weekly radio shows than you might have previously suspected.

As my own contribution to academic notoriety, I’ll be celebrating graduation season this morning on “Sweetness and Light” with a program of processionals and scenes from campus life – including a shocking number of works based on student drinking songs. Composers represented will include Jean Sibelius, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Johann Strauss II, Sigmund Romberg, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and of course Sir Edward “Pomp and Circumstance” Elgar.

Hide the empties from your folks and join me in cap and gown. We’ll be disguising our breath and churning out responsible citizens when we reel to the platform to claim our parchment on the next “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PST!

Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

NOTE: None of these guys graduated