One of my many alma maters (almas mater?), and the one to which I'm the most attached, is the University of Michigan Business School. The editorial staff of the student newspaper, clearly distracted by upcoming final exams, delayed publishing the April Fool edition until this week. However it included this playful niblet about the SOS (Significant Others & Spouses) Club whose members are those long-suffering men and women known to many as as "trailing spouses" who make the thankless trek to the cold wilderness of Michigan in support of their MBA-student partners. I found it amusing. Maybe you will, too.

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SOS ANNOUNCES NEW MOTTO: "ALL OF THE DEBT, NONE OF THE LEARNING."

Stressing that they, too, have to pay back obscenely large student loans without the benefits of salaries, the SOS club this week changed their official motto from "All of the fun, none of the homework," to the more realistic "All of the debt, none of the learning." Most of the club responded with approval of the increased realism.

Some SOS members added that MBA students, also, don't learn anything.

"It's a positive change," said SOS2 Joss Forster, "it's a reminder to any incoming SOS that they may well have to bide their time in a learning-free job for two years while they put their SOS through school, but they're also likely to be saddled with debt for their trouble. And as for dropping 'fun' from the motto? Well, let's just say that's not the word I would use to describe hanging around a bunch of overweight, balding, 30-something business students. Guys, there are other things in life than getting to Goldman office hours. Geez."

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