Maybe the University of Massachusetts should have thought a little harder before they offered Andrew Card an honorary degree. It looks like the graduating class was nearly unanimous in their disagreement with that decision. The prevailing sentiment seemed to be that a cold prison cell would be a more fitting award.
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It’s odd how a “liberal” school on the “liberal” East Coast would offer an honorary degree to a person like Andrew Card. I would bet my house that a Regent or Liberty University would never invite Ralph Nader or even Al Gore to receive an honorary degree.
That is one of the most heartening things I’ve seen in a long time.
they let it happen, no one got hurt, no one got carted out, and boy did it get the point across.
I grew up in MA, and I went to undergrad school in the turbulent late 1960s. I thought then that the college administrations were sensitive to student fears and angers, and if not outright supporting such student views, at least did nothing to inflame them.
Looking at the UMass fiasco here from a student-faculty-administration relations point of view, wow how things must have changed! What is the deeper significance of this episode of disconnection?
In the 1960s, most university presidents were former faculty members who had worked their way up. Is that not true now??
–Are most high administrators just political appointment hacks?? That would explain a lot.
–Are college administration personnel just now more conservative than their students, and why??
–Does the lack of a draft explain anything??
–Do school administration folks just have to kiss-ass to currently conservative political administrations to get needed funding and the students just do not understand that money is always king??
Watching this video was one of the most disappointing and strange experiences I have ever had, especially coming out of a school like UMass!. I have never seen such disconnect at this level of our society in my life, and I must tell you it does not portend well for our future!!
there were faculty who were protesting as well. This Youtube link shows the faculty behind the podium as well as the folks booing in the audience:
Andrew Card Protest at University of Massachusetts
If you go to youtube and search for card protest you will find a bunch of stuff including protest rallies.
I found it interesting (from the link above), some ANONYMOUS person nominated Card and the school administration promoted it. Card is from a wealthy part of MA so they might have gotten some money from this charade.
I think what the students and faculty did portray real hope for the future. It is obvious that the administration of UMass are out of step and the students and faculty sent them a message. They would be fools not to listen.
That’s my alma mater: I probably know some of the professors on stage there with the signs.
I don’t know which dingaling in the adminsitration (not the faculty) thought Card would be a good choice. Perhaps the dimwit who chose Card forgot that UMass has highly educated grad students as well as stoned out hippies (tha majority of the undergrads when I was there). I don’t know what they were thinking.
But boy oh boy did they get a reaction.
wow, if your a tenured professor you can do just about anything. I find it refreshing when a member of W’s Administration has the courage to come out of their bubble and face the public. At least 70% of American agree with the UMASS students….