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The ASU Honorary Degree Committee accepts nominations for honorary degree recipients from members of the ASU academic community at any time during the year. This includes faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni, donors, and so on... That's right. If you have a relationship with ASU, any legitimate relationship, you can make a nomination directly to the committee.
The chairs are Laurie Chassin and Christine Wilkinson. According to ASU's spokesperson, all nominations should be sent directly to the chairs.
One thing I'd like to add. Please BE RESPECTFUL. I honestly think this was more of a bureaucratic snafu than anything, and then ASU just didn't know how to avoid the PR nightmare. Friends of mine at the university are getting undeserved hatemail just for doing their jobs, and they had nothing to do with any decisions -- so please, be respectful if you write in to the university.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/9/181311/9...
Arizona State, keep your little political diploma and put it where the sun won't get to it. It's a pity the republicans can't get beyond their partisanship. I have never seen such poor losers. Children, all of them.
As if being the first Black president is just chopped liver. What really gets me is that they deny Obama an honorary degree when they would have no hesitation to award one to Bush, the first cockroach president. Yeah, I guess that is quite an accomplishment considering that Obama is a human being and has more than just a nodal cord for a brain. Then again, Obama didn't lie us into an unnecessary, illegal war against a nation that did nothing to us, brutally slaughter 1.3 million heathen, infidel, darkie, terrorist enemies of this nation, butcher 4,300 American soldiers, create the second Great Depression, destroy the Constitution, Bill of Rights and laws of our nation, make our nation the most hated in the world, embezzled trillions from our Treasury ... Perhaps when Obama has a list of accomplishments to match Bush, and no longer can speak English as his mother tongue, maybe then Obama will be deserving of an Arizona State honorary kindergarten degree.
We're Number One! Merka!
Obama became a great man the day he was nominated for President. He became a stellar person in our history when he was elected President. From an historical perspective, he's already up there with the Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington (and in my mind, other greats like Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Fredrick Douglas).
The rest of us are mere mortals.
ASU makes it's self look like Horace Greeley. A peon.
Why bother with this relatively rinkydink school grad ceremony at all, President Obama?
I'd find something more important to do that day, maybe having to do with being the leader of the free world, while they're stuck at Arizona state.
Barack Obama attended Occidental College, but received his undergraduate degree in political science from Columbia University, an Ivy League member currently ranked 9th in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Obama also graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Harvard Law School, where he also served as President of the Harvard Law Review. Harvard Law School is ranked the best Law School in America.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Sure doesn't say much for their university.
Reading the comments on that piece, all was revealed: Arizona State is a second-rate party school, and the usual recipients of toilet paper honorary degrees are, aside from a few names like Barry Goldwater (!), fatcat nonentities who either have already ponied up big cash for the community college, or the college has hopes they will.
They're also still miffed the American public didn't join them in having the wool pulled over their eyes by electing John "Walnuts" McCain.
Surely you have something better to do on May 15, President Obama.
It is a trite and nonsensical social mannerism. Who's resume was ever wrecked by not receiving a fake and useless degree? LOL!
Honorary degrees are cheesy party favors.
Jesus, even Cindy McCain left the state to go to USC. (Not that Cindy McCain is stupid - she's not - but her Dad was about as Arizona centric as you can get)
Like Obama, I have a degree from Columbia. If I ever wear a univerity T-shirt here, I am routinely asked when I visited South America and how I liked it.
No one has heard of Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Williams College, Mt. Holyoke, etc., and anyone with a shred of education is viewed as suspect.
The fact that ASU, with 100,000+ students will take a pass on Obama is laughable. It is a fourth rate school at best, a fall-back for people applying to third tier schools.
Fuck them next time they call asking for money. I'm glad my son's at U of A now. Seriously.
Or as we used to like to say to ASU folk when I went there "At least we have some standards."
Apparently ASU has to accept everyone that applies to attend there.
They should give him the fake degree because he is the President of the United States, what other reason do they need?
ASU's defense of their decision is laughable. Why not just say "We're very conservative here and just don't like the President"?
U of Airzona is a great school. But ASU is a glorified 4-year community college. any high school grad can get in that school, even with bad gardes
Author of two best selling books.
Columbia University
B.A. Political Science with specialization in international relations
Thesis topic: Soviet nuclear disarmament
Graduate
Harvard Law School
J.D. magna cum laude 1988-1991
President, Harvard Law Review
1983-1984 Writer/Researcher for Business International Corporation. Helped companies understand overseas markets.
1984-1985 Community Organizer for New York Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), promoting personal, community, and government reform at City College in Harlem.
1985-1988 Director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland on Chicago's South Side. While director grew the DCP staff from 1 to 13 and their budget from $70,000 to $400,000.
1992 Led Chicago's Project Vote! push. This resulted in a record number of voter registrations, over 600,000 in Chicago.
1993-2004 Visiting Law and Government Fellow, then Senior Lecturer, in Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Taught courses on the due process and equal protection areas of constitutional law, on voting rights, and on racism and law.
1993-2002 Worked as an associate attorney with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Represented non-profits and private individuals in urban development projects, voting rights cases, and wrongful firings. Filed major suit that forced the state of Illinois to enforce the Motor Voter Law and successfully argued a wrongful firing case before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
November 4, 2008- Elected 44th POTUS!
Come to think of it, my decision of 45 years ago to never set foot in AZ again was a wise one...
"What, seriously?"
"Yes, sir."
"Bummer. I needed that for my résumé."
Here you go julio-
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/no-h...
"Incidentally, John McCain himself has not received an honorary degree from ASU."
Fucking slacker! What does he have to offer? It's not like he's ever been successful at anything or is able to motivate or inspire people.