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Thursday, April 28, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3B alleges disagree over honorary degrees njj.i '■ United Press International fens of thousands of college >kes atx ted down, ilJ •ro aside, iJ )u looking il wewerebeJ ;r if you wtJ ees are displayed across the Ion on the walls of people I never earned them in a r-year course of study. he degrees are honorary, leral thousand are being bes- Jed this spring. |A UPI survey of colleges indi- vh atyoukifti s many schoo,s bid for bi 8 ' "-e speakers with such de- m jjjj ona lr Besand honorariums. Others r Mort Zudr | n on the P ractic r e - vasoulin.;! ea I )ients ran S e from P resi ‘ |tsand premiers to cookbook lets. onsider Charles A. Lind- h, who flunked out of the Jversity of Wisconsin in 1921. In years later his old school Ihim an honorary doctor of | degree in recognition of his |7 first solo trans-Atlantic tor Arthur Fiedler, President Lyndon B. Johnson, artist Geor gia O’Keefe, CBS newsman Mike Wallace. President Reagan’s first trip outside the White House after aw a soul in e finished ^ md business, t pestering iton real interview. called and;| •pent 15 nost imo wet seen, o is look,’ termangouji year. By age a percentei rofits and« ionaire. Id go on and > only ruleofa re are no a is or failumi how well a he way tin articular a’ ast year, Harvard honored her Teresa of India and |wright Tennessee Williams. I year before, Notre Dame [led out President Reagan [Premier Pierre Trudeau of jada. [ sampling of honorary de- from major schools the | few years turns up such lies as Boston Pops conduc- John Hinckley tried to assassin ate him was to receive a degree and speak at Notre Dame. His visit prompted nostalgic references to his role as the “Gipper,” the late Notre Dame football star George Gipp, in the film in which Pat O’Brien (also receiving a degree that day) played legendary coach Knute Rockne. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Dwight D. Eisenhower all received degrees from Notre Dame while in office. President John F. Ken nedy received the Laetare Med al, the university’s highest honor for a Roman Catholic. Notre Dame’s president of 31 years, the Rev. Theodore Hes- burgh, has worked for these presidents on national boards. He knows them — and they know “Notre Dame is a highly visible platform for Catholics in this country,” said Richard Con klin, Notre Dame spokesman. Columbia University doesn’t use degrees to obtain speakers. Its commencement speaker al ways is the university president. But like Harvard, it wants de gree recipients there for the show. It doesn’t announce their names until graduation day. No show, no degree. Degrees often go with the honorarium and travel expenses given the principal commence ment speaker. Competition for speakers can be fierce. It also can be embarrassing when stu dents don’t like the choice. Smith College invited U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick to speak and receive an honor ary degree at its May 22 cere monies this year. Students orga nized CROAK — Committee Responsible for Organizing Against Kirkpatrick. They plan ned a silent protest. Mrs. Kirk patrick withdrew. She still will receive her de gree, the trustees decided. Colleges and universities, asked for their criteria for such degrees, speak of distinguished careers, outstanding achieve ment, service to humanity, con nection with the school or state. They don’t like to speak of money. Someone who has contri buted money to the school may be honored, but “it is long after the event” and money is not the deciding factor, said Carleton Whitehead of Reed College in Portland, Ore. Reed typifies schools that pre fer to honor people with a tie to the institution. Among its reci pients has been cookbook writer James Beard, who attended Reed. “I don’t want to say people who received honorary degrees have not been generous to the college, but the purpose is to rec ognize something they have done in society,” said a Dart mouth spokesman. “We don’t base honorary de grees on how much someone contributes. We’re not playing that game,” said Dr. Fred Brown, executive vice-president of Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa. In 1980, Fluena Vista did give a degree to a donor-graduate — unnamed because of a contract between the school and the per son. If the degree was excep tional, so was the gift: $18 mil lion. President Norman Hacker- man of Rice University said his school won’t give honorary de grees because “we just don’t want to lower the requirements for a degree.” amenities^ g pools, rage, central >or racks and id mucfimr ooms, man! lies. nent ir summer or /April 30, }$ with special guest star HU€V L€UilS and the N€UJS playing a full 60 min. set. 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