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My inaugural lecture as a professor back in 2003 was held as part of a celebration of 30 years of the Internet at UCL, where Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn received awards. Pretty daunting audience for a new networking professor. Afterwards there was a big dinner with the Provost, Vint, Bob and various dignatories, and of course, Jeremy Bentham attended, in his box. Although he wasn't quite at the dinner table, I pretty much got to sit next to him through dinner. He wasn't much of a conversationalist. Needless to say, it was one of my more memorable days.

I think Bentham would appreciate the new glass box - he did invent the panopticon after all. But I think he'd be sad to miss out on being wheeled into dinner with new professors.

Or getting his head stolen during a drunken rivalry between UCL and Imperial
Tradition has it that it was Kings that stole his head. After all, Kings was founded as a religious alternative to "that godless institution on Gower Street". UCL: proudly secular since 1826.
Proudly inclusive too. First university to accept women and foreigners