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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

ASU Alumni Pull Donations Over Obama Snub

ASU Says "We Blew It," Alumni Rescind Donations
The Arizona State University community is expressing anger and embarrassment in response to ASU's decision not to award President Barack Obama an honorary degreewhen he gives the commencement speech there next month. An ASU spokesperson now confesses, "we blew it," and concedes that the university likely would have conferred the honorary degree, but once it became a controversy, ASU administrators were too worried about appearing insincere.
When the news hit last week that ASU would not honor Obama with a customary honorary degree when he addresses the graduating class, the Huffington Post asked for people with ties to ASU to email their reactions. A couple hundred members of the university's community (students, alumni, staff, and faculty) submitted their personal thoughts.
Nearly every email expressed shame over the decision made by their alma mater. One alumnus, Dr. Neil Francis, wrote from Thailand to say he will no longer wear his Arizona State University ball cap -- even halfway around the world. Several said that they did not believe the story when they first heard it: they thought the story was a satirical news piece or a holdover from April Fool's Day.
Many Huffington Post readers wrote in to say that they would be withholding donations. Some said they would even remove endowments from their wills. The detrimental effect that this debacle will almost certainly have on fundraising could not come at a worse time, since the state legislature has recently enacted major funding cuts. LinkHere

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I live in Tempe and do not have a lot of respect for ASU and the crappy liberal school that they are, but I have to admit it... ASU got it correct!!!.

Why should any of these chumps get an honorary degree that everyone other person has to buy!!!

Maybe if Onama shelled out 4 years tuition in these hard economic times, the university may have considered it.

I am glad that some one has the balls to tell this wanna be rock star that the buck stops here.

14/5/09 12:45 AM  

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