UT to give honorary degree to Gore

The Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 1/27/2010

[TN4Liberty]

MARTIN, Tenn. - Former vice president and Nobel Peach Prize winner Al Gore will receive an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee.

The degree - an Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - will be given to Gore at the spring commencement exercises of the College of Arts and Sciences on May 14, where he will be the featured speaker.

"Vice President Gore's career has been marked by visionary leadership, and his work has quite literally changed our planet for the better," UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek said in a statement. "He is among the most accomplished and respected Tennesseans in history, and it is fitting that he should be honored by the flagship education institution of his home state."

[TN4Liberty]

I wish I was a contributor so I could threaten to stop contributing

[RC2]

I didn’t know they had degrees in BS

[rocksblues]

Oh Well! From now on I will root for the Razorbacks!

[aquila48]

“I wish I was a contributor so I could threaten to stop contributing”

Maybe we need to contribute a flood of articles on the scam, lies and frauds that they are in the process of honoring.

[RebelTXRose]

I’m sorry - but I’m so glad that THIS UT isn’t the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS!

[Steve Van Doorn]

Al Gore will receive Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology for his exhaustive research into the Man-bear-pig

[Stosh]

God knows he had enough trouble getting a real one!

[lesko]

I’d love to debate AG on ecology and evolutionary biology.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Dang. Imagine how worthless an actual Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology must be.

[11th Commandment]

I didn’t know they had degrees in BS

good for toilet paper.. dissolve in water, environmentally friendly.

[TSgt]

AlGore besmirches the reputation of the great state of Tennessee. Al was BORN AND RAISED in DC and is NOT a true Tennessean.

Albert Gore, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., to Albert Gore, Sr., a U.S. Representative (1939–1944, 1945–1953) and Senator (1953–1971) from Tennessee, and Pauline LaFon Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School. His older sister Nancy LaFon Gore, who was born in 1938, died of lung cancer in 1984. Gore divided his childhood between Washington, D.C. and Carthage, Tennessee. During summer vacations, Gore worked on the family farm in Carthage where the Gores grew hay and tobacco and raised cattle. Each school year, however, the family lived in The Fairfax Hotel at Embassy Row in Washington D.C.

[Airborne Longhorn]

Admin:

In thread title, please change "UT" to "UTenn."

We're not talking about THE University of Texas here!!!

>Hook 'Em!!

[Trajan88]

First thought this was tu (the dirty burnt orange bloods of austin)... probably just a matter of time thought before the sips drape praise on the walking/talking tree from Tenn.

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88

[C210N]

I didn’t know they had degrees in BS

But he's getting an honorary doctoral degree... or PHD. That's much better than a "BS", as its Piled Higher and Deeper. Its even one step better than an "MS", or More of the Same.

[dfwgator]

Ah yes, the home of David Kernell who hacked into Palin’s private e-mail.

[Pollster1]

Right person, wrong field. It should be a Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Creative Writing for Science Fiction Film Studies.

[Political Junkie Too]

But they wouldn't even let him teach there in 2001. Gore had to go to Middle Tennessee State to teach a class after losing the election.

So now UT wants to give him a degree?

-PJ

[pepperdog]

Don’t get too proud, it could well have been. Our UT is a liberal hell hole too.

[LoneStarGI]

[razorback-bert]

Welcome, it will be a great year in football.

Look in the pictonary and under elistist a$$hole is Albore.

I met him a time or two, while I lived in Nashville.