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."

[Dixie Yooper]

Doctor Gore...It has a certain stink to it that reminds me of something my neighbor’s dog left in my yard.

[Waverunner]

He got the PHD because he could walk upright, and someday will evolve into a creature with a brain. Sort of like the Nobel Prize for Obama. When he gets this, he will be the smartest man alive...

[SkyDancer]

Yes, it’s called a Communications Degree ....

[RockyTop4GOP]

There's a Facebook group to stop the University from awarding the degree to Al Gore. Click here to join.

You can also email the University at chancellor@utk.edu.

[RC2]

He’ll most likely get the PHD.....Post Hole Digger.

[TennesseeGirl]

This is so embarrassing. The only reason I can figure out this is happening is Gore’s making a huge donation to the school in an effort to repair his image. Sigh. I don’t know. I don’t get it.

[DesertConservative]

I think the official diploma is awarded as a “bachelor’s of the arts in bloviating.”

[LiteKeeper]

So, he goes from ClimateGate to DarwinGate. Good work, Algore! Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Where do you think the ClimateGate scientists learned their trade...from the Darwinists! he ought to be in jail for fraud.!

[don-o]

[TN4Liberty]

This is so embarrassing.

I agree. I wonder if it will impact donations. I kinda hope so, but they'd just blame it on the new football coach.

[sionnsar]

UTenn -- where their sports players are prohibited from possessing guns OFF-CAMPUS! (And back at home too? There is NO end to the reach liberals will exert if you give them even so much as an inch.)

So happy (in a way) my grandfather retired from Chattanooga U and passed on before it became UTenn. He would have been horrified (I learned about gun handling from him).