[Wally_Kalbacken]

The basic purpose of an honorary degree is most often to embarrass the institution granting it.

[alancarp]

Embarrassed?? Naw - this is the same University, when recently confronted with the fact that the staff was almost vacant of Conservatives to any extent at all, responded by saying that "diversity" involved racial and ethnic considerations, not ideological or intellectual thinking.

[annyokie]

It would be quite difficult for Duke to further embarrass itself.