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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I get the idea of giving a speaker at graduation an honorary degree (not sure WHY but ok it's a tradition). The article doesn't say why they'd even be giving him a degree in the first place. If it was for no particular or traditional reason I don't know why they'd give him one.
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The end of the article says that they would be doing it because of contributions to the university's research and scholarship programs.
I just look at an honorary degree like any other honor or award; something to be proud of, but nothing to read too much into either. As far as protests against speakers, I can think of two recent ones off the top of my head (Condoleeza Rice speaking at the Boston College graduation, and Justice Scalia speaking at UConn Law last year). It seems like it happens every year at a handful of schools.
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