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In fact, I had this confirmed to me recently when my colleague Chad Bauman and I met with an alumnus of Butler University, Karl Hofstetter, who majored in religion and who went on to become the president and curator of a record label, Joyful Noise Recordings<\/a>. His religion degree gave him all the training in understanding people, communicating, being creative, and being flexible that you need to do something like this. And contrary to what a lot of students who major in business seem to think, it is having those skills, and not having the piece of paper\u00a0called a diploma that is supposed to vouchsafe those skills, which is what makes the difference.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo from our meeting about a month ago,\u00a0at the then newly-opened Scotty\u2019s Dawghouse on the Butler University campus:<\/p>\n

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