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| Bobby Byrd Graduates! Will he wear his KKK robe to Commencement? |
| 2003-05-02 |
| Fifty-two years after he left the former Morris Harvey College to pursue a political career, Sen. Robert C. Byrd is graduating. The school, now called the University of Charleston, has awarded Byrd a bachelor of arts degree that he began work on in 1950. You would have thought it would be a bachelor's of pork, or an associate's degree in cross burning. "It is a great honor for me to receive this degree," Byrd said. Welch said the degree isn't an honorary diploma often awarded to dignitaries, but is a real degree based on Byrd's 27 hours of class work at the school and the skills and knowledge he gained in more than 50 years in Congress. What a concept. Class credit for skillfully pulling at the public teat! "Our process is that we recognize students' knowledge and skills. We give them credit. You don't have to be in the class to demonstrate a rather high level of knowledge and skills needed to graduate," Welch said Wednesday. But you should be required to have a modicum of class. And playing the fiddle doesn't suffice. Byrd majored in political science from September 1950 to May 1951, attending classes while serving in the Legislature. Now, will someone show this old coot the door and how to get to the retirement home? |
| Posted by:ColoradoConservative |
| #4 Will he have to give a speech? It always gets interesting when the Kleagle gives a speech. Edge of your seat excitement... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-05-02 22:52:54 |
| #3 Why'd I just have this vision of the Marines taking Robert Byrd airport and renaming it, followed by statues being torn down all over West Virginia? |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-05-02 21:20:32 |
| #2 The degree will be presented at Commencement in the Robert Byrd Auditorium, west of the Robert Byrd Academic Complex, just off Robert Byrd Highway. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-05-02 15:59:07 |
| #1 Morris Harvey College? That sounds kinda Jeewwwwwish, Bobby. You wanna explain that,... boy? Surprised it wasn't renamed the Robert K. Byrd College using federal |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-05-02 15:49:17 |