I would think Hildegarde of Bingen would be the obvious musical choice for the Medievalist's Habitat.
Thank God we never have the "see the faculty zoo" situation here - I'd have to clean my office and I don't know where I'd put all the stacks of paper. And then I'd never find anything again after destroying my 'neural map' filing system.
Oh ick - You have my deepest sympathies; I would HATE that. IT would be all I could do NOT to fling feces at the "observers".
I think you should do the bars. Perhaps also chains on the books? And the spectacles?
I hope that I can learn how to pay attention by the time I'm 35.
Of course, I really want to know if the powers that be let the People Who Have Money observe the graduate students in their natural habitat. Or did you just close the door and hope that the noise wouldn't be too distracting?
And, what follows from that, if the People Who Have Money got to see the graduate students, did any get lost amongst the cubicles?
(Will I be surprised by some rich donor who got lost back by the refrigerator when I'm the first one in the office tomorrow morning?)
At least I can count on leftover cookies.
Unless the lost donor got hungry.
If the bars are out, how about a genteel velvet rope strung across the doorway? One with brass caps on each end?
We HAVE had "observe grad students in their natural habitat" days. It was great fun. We were strongly encouraged to have interesting slides relevent to our research located somewhere in the natural habitat, so we could just happen to pick them up, and describe what we do.
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