A movement for Steyn to get an honorary degree would have to be generated by alumnai rather than students.
The administration has never cared what the students thought since I can remember.
By the way, as a quondam grad student adjunct teacher, I'm in support of higher pay and benefits to adjuncts. We carry the teaching load in large classes while the tenured profs teach one class a week--often to only a few students in a seminar.