Currently, all-male Wabash College in Indiana and VMI are the only two U.S. institutions of higher learning that continue to give out hand-calligraphied Latin diplomas on sheepskin, with Wabash requiring it and VMI offering it as an option to interested students. To save money in the face of dwindling suppliers, President Greg Hess recently decided that Wabash would discontinue the sheepskin diplomas, something he did without any consultation or consensus to the distress especially of current Wabash seniors who expected a sheepskin diploma. The news only broke, months after Hess ran his decision through a faculty committee without any wider vote or student input, through an independent student magazine. Despite this authoritarian decision to end a beloved 187-year old tradition, we believe voicing our opinion to the Board of Trustees is worth doing, and encourage all interested parties to sign our petition and consider contacting the members to ask President Hess to change this bad decision ASAP to at least allow a VMI-style sheepskin option (surely VMI isn't giving out "bad sheepskin"!) for current and future students who feel strongly about this issue, rejecting Hess's argument that such a situation would divide students into haves and have-nots: https://www.wabash.edu/aboutwabash/trustees