Obama may get ASU honor after all
Added 514 days ago on April 10th, 2009
Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University, tells POLITICO that the school is reconsidering its widely mocked plans not to give President Obama an honorary degree when he speaks at commencement on May 13, and will "honor him in every way possible.""There was no intended slight," Crow said by telephone from his office in Tempe. "We had not yet talked about what honors we might give him as our commencement speaker, and we still have a month to work all that out. We don't want anyone to thin we do not recognize what he has achieved, and what he means in America."A formal decision has not been made, but it was clear from Crow's comments that the university is headed in that direction. ASU risked becoming a national punch line if it did not quickly retreat from its policy against conferring honorary degrees on sitting politician.Past recipients of ASU honorary degrees included an aloe-vera magnate, the director of "Victor Victoria," a Chinese official, a Canadian politician and lots of donors and fundraisers.
Source: politico.com
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Posted by: rakey1764
7:04am, April 13th, 2009
Re: Obama may get ASU honor after all
Nobody should get an honorary degree! They should have to work for it just like the rest of us.
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