What a bizarre choice for an article picture. That’s at Caltech, not the University of Southern California. And the man in the center is Elon Musk, who is not a professor (which is sort an odd choice since the purpose of the article was to rail at professors). He was the commencement speaker. Every student in the background is someone who just received a Ph.D. in a science or engineering discipline, and who was not required to take any non-math/non-science courses—at an institution in which nearly every professor is an honest and excellent scientist/engineer, with almost no humanities profs at all. Yes, colleges have biases. But perhaps the author of this article needs to go back to school to become a bit more competent.
Picky, picky, picky aren’t we?
That may all be true, but I doubt that the vast majority of people who see this article are familiar enough with Caltech to recognize it in a generic college graduation photo. Your familiarity with the photo, and with who the man in its center is, suggests to me that you have specific knowledge of it that most people don’t.
Despite spending years at UC Davis, I doubt that I’d recognize most pictures of the campus if I didn’t know ahead of time that they came from UCD.