Clown Campus

Western facilities management employee Joe Meyers recreates the psychology experiment of a unicycling clown, for a TV news station, Monday, January 24, 2011. Photo by Daniel Berman/www.bermanphotos.com

It’s not every day you see a clown, on-campus, riding a unicycle. Never before have I combined those three particular phrases into a single sentence while walking around the school. The rider was filming a segment that recreated a Western psychology experiment that found students who were distracted by cellphones and ipods were far less likely to notice a unicycling clown riding through the center of campus. Read more on that experiment here.

Thanks for looking!

Daniel