Fun article in the Chronicle that I saw today…it’s about how people with beards are deemed more trustworthy than those men who are clean-shaven.
And, you know? I think I agree. Many religous figures have beards (Confucius, Jesus, even Greek Gods Zeus and Poseidon). Famous statesmen? Check. (Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant) Great thinkers have long eschewed the razor (Ernest Hemingway, Sigmund Freud). Certainly your stereotypical college professor would never be caught dead without a solid growth of facial hair.

You know, the more I think of it, the more I think I should get on board the beard trend.