I think *I* should get a doctorate!!!
Posted on 02/20/2007 12:36:39 PM PST by carlo3b
Gore may get doctorate
The U is in the confidential stages of considering an honorary degree for Al Gore.
By Elena Rozwadowski
former Vice President Al Gore could pay a visit to the University in the near future to receive an honorary degree for his work in climatology.
University President Bob Bruininks spilled the beans at the February Board of Regents meeting, saying that "two of our colleges are working with Vice President Gore to provide, we hope, an honorary doctorate."
Gore has been in the news lately for his 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," about global warming. University spokesperson Daniel Wolter said since Gore is an expert in the subject, several colleges at the University have expressed interest in inviting Gore to speak on campus.
"He's in the news and is a legitimate expert on a pressing issue of global concern, climate change, so this level of interest is understandable," Wolter said. "However, no plans have been set and it's unlikely that would occur this spring."
Gore spokesperson Kalee Kreider said she did not believe Gore has received information about an honorary doctorate from the University and wouldn't comment further.
Wolter said the University is still interested in hosting Gore and will "continue to look into the matter."
One way to lure him to campus would be with an honorary doctorate, which he would likely receive in person.
The University gives out several honorary degrees each year in three categories: humane letters, laws and sciences. Candidates cannot be University employees and must be nominated by a current faculty or staff member or a University alumnus or alumna.
(Excerpt) Read more at mndaily.com ...
Another fine move by an liberal academic dung heap.
Doctorate schmoctorate, anything less than Rushmore is an insult to this great statesman.
"for his work in climatology". And what did he do in that field? Spouted a bunch of stuff from other people. Doh!
appropriate for Minnesoooota
"for his work in climatology"
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You might as well be handing out doctorates to street corner winos and bumbs -- they are equally qualified in the area of "climatology fiction and doomsday forecasting"... :-) What a crock. Do these morons know how freakin' stupid they appear ??? No, they are liberals.
Honorary doctrates don't mean nuthin. Why doesn't he go the Bill Cosby route and actually earn a real one.
GORE GONE WILD!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing like decreasing the worth of a PhD from U of M...
It figures. Yassir Arafat got the Peace Prize, didn't he? And the most profligate civil rights violators sit on the U.N. Human Rights commission? This word works that way.
What? PhD. in Fartology?
Piled High and Deep
You're asking this of a man who, I believe, flunked out of college when he majored in Theology.
Hey, don't lump the rest of us in with the blue staters in the 394 494 beltway.
Well, honorary doctorates do not count, only earned ones do. Newt Gingrich, IIRC, has an earned doctorate in history; Phil Gramm has an earned one in economics. Both of them were serious [even if not spectacular] scholars, professors in their related disciplines prior to their careers as politicians.
From the looks of it, a Ph.D. in Twinkieology...
Shouldn't he get a Masters first? :)
I will gouge my eyes out with my own thumbs the second he lifts his shirt to flash the camera.
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