Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 05, 2013
June 04, 2013
June 06, 2013
Transcript:
Toggle: w-whoa..! Awesome G-getup! Alex: All ready for hooding! Toggle: What... what that? Alex: The doctoral ceremony! Our professors bedeck us with mantles of velvet and satin... transforming us from lackeys into colleagues! Thereafter we may address them by their first names! Toggle: I bet they... l-like that! Alex: They do. All except Ichabod, Puss and Stinky.
Academic titles do not include “doctor” – although many PhDs expect to be addressed as such. Academics are “professors” and “deans”. Physicians are “doctors.”