Faculty and staff get a bigger break: under the rules, you can deduct the cost of your uniforms if you are a civilian faculty or staff member of a military school.

FORBES: Back to School: Deductibility of School Uniforms

Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.

NEWYORKER: Cell One