Tweeted photo of a poster for the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, with a misspelling (© @evanasmith, http://aka.ms/pubicaffairs)

Welcome to the LBJ School of Pubic (er, Public) Affairs

5/21/2012

Lyndon B. Johnson, as his famed biographer Robert Caro has noted, often referred to his penis as "Jumbo." So perhaps it's fitting that the programs distributed for Saturday's commencement would read, "Lyndon B. Johnson School of Pubic Affairs." Pubic!? "Obviously, we are mortified. It's beyond embarrassing," said a horrified Susan Binford, assistant dean for communications at the school. Making matters worse, well, almost worse, was the apology tweet: "Our deepest apologies to our 2012 graduates for the eggregious typo in our program."

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Do you think students were amused or embarrassed by the typo?