Scandal erupted at the University of Pennsylvania today when it was discovered that, for more than twenty years, the campus bookstore had been selling wirebound notebooks decorated with the university arms in which the first and last words of the school motto had been obliterated. The former motto, “Leges sine moribus vanae” (“Laws are vain without morals”), was thus somewhat altered in meaning. In a quickly convened emergency meeting, the trustees voted to alter the “outdated and patriarchal” official motto to match the one printed on the notebooks, “acknowledging the latter as a better reflection of current conditions in university life.”