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SUNY Old Westbury's commencement, which took place on Sunday, featured blue skies, a speech from Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, 710 newly-minted undergraduate degrees -- and one bizarre typo.

A press release about the event included a bullet point about one of the college's honors: the "Martini Luther King Jr. Award."

Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, the school's president, is a longtime civil rights leader and pastor of Harlem's* Abyssinian Baptist Church who has led a campaign against negative rap lyrics. He was to confer the award to Sheil Wilson-Wells, the student government president.

No political fallout was reported, from what was clearly an inadvertent error.

Patrick Whittle

*(our own typo, Harlme, is corrected -- touche and thanks, speedy JP!)