Posted on 05/14/2008 10:35:28 AM PDT by Disturbin
The University of Massachusetts appears poised to “rescind” an honorary degree that it issued to Robert Mugabe more than two decades ago, a degree, with all due respect to the university, that the Zimbabwean dictator probably has forgotten all about. But it’s an important symbolic gesture to many students and faculty and to one prominent state lawmaker, and UMass President Jack Wilson has agreed that the connection between Mugabe and the university, however tenuous it might be, ought to be publicly severed.
In a statement Wilson said the degree was issued at a time when Mugabe appeared to be “a force for positive change in Africa.” There were those who strongly disagreed with that assessment, even at the time. So UMass ought to think long and hard before it honors another “leader” like Mugabe. It’s almost impossible to unring a bell.
I'm surprised President Wilson at the execs at UMass could find time for such matters in between their busy schedule of junkets to Communist China.
“Jack Wilson has agreed that the connection between Mugabe and the university, however tenuous it might be, ought to be publicly severed.”
However “tenuous”??? God I love language. Mugabe ought to be hunted down and shot dead for what he’s done and all this Wilson can say is this?
I’m always amazed at the mindset out there. I shouldn’t be anymore, but I still am.
He went on to comment "I'd rather have Whitey Bulger's name on the degree..."
Exactly.
If you guys knew the kind of money that UMass spends on relations with and junkets to China, you’d want to vomit.
Check out the Communist China flag on this page:
http://www.massachusetts.edu/international/internationalchina.html
They are banking on Craig Mello’s recent success to lure students, but ZooMass has a reputation that speaks for itself.
Plus, they’re not doing themselves any favors using Mumbles in their tv spots.
Seems to me, the Boy Scouts took back X42’s “Silver Buffalo” award ... or something like that.
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