Public face no more: Temple rescinds Cosby's honorary degree

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/27/public-face-no-more-temple-rescinds-
cosbys-honorary-degree.html

PHILADELPHIA – Temple University, where Bill Cosby long served as a
leading public face and key fundraiser, said Friday it will rescind the
honorary doctorate it awarded to the comedian in 1991 because he was
convicted of sexually assaulting a former employee.

The Philadelphia university said its board of trustees accepted a
recommendation Friday to rescind the degree, citing Thursday's jury
verdict finding him guilty of drugging and molesting a woman who managed
the school's women's basketball team in 2004.

Cosby received a bachelor's from Temple, which was among relatively few
that waited to pull honors from Cosby until after the verdict.

Temple Board of Trustees Chairman Patrick O'Connor previously said he
would recuse himself from discussions on the honorary degree. O'Connor
represented Cosby in 2005 when he first faced allegations of sexual
assault.

Cosby served on the board for decades before resigning in 2014. Cosby
almost never attended Temple board meetings, but he frequently turned out
to support the school's basketball teams, an interest that connected him
with victim Andrea Constand.

Constand said she had socialized with Cosby and then sought him out for
career advice before he later knocked her out with three blue pills he
called "your friends" and then penetrated her with his fingers as she lay
immobilized, unable to resist or say no.

Even before the verdict, more than 20 colleges and universities across the
U.S. had revoked honorary degrees from Cosby in light of allegations
against him. Ohio State University's governing board pulled a 2001 degree
from Cosby this month in the days leading up to his retrial.

Others joining Temple in revoking honors after the verdict include Johns
Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University, Notre Dame, Boston College
and Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Colleges across the country have struggled to decide whether to strip
honors from men whose reputations have been tarnished in the wake of the
#MeToo movement.

Some have been quick to cut ties, including the University at Buffalo,
which revoked an honorary degree from disgraced film mogul Harvey
Weinstein, and Fordham University, which pulled an honor from fired news
anchor Charlie Rose.

But others have refused. The Juilliard School in New York, which gave an
honorary doctorate to actor Kevin Spacey in 2000, said it does not rescind
such honors.

Although it traditionally has been rare for schools to rescind honorary
degrees retroactively, experts say it has become more common in light of
the #MeToo movement. Some schools have been pressured to strip honors by
students, faculty or outside critics.

Often it's up to a school's governing board to approve and revoke honorary
degrees, which are often awarded to notable alumni or graduation speakers.


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