Faculty members at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, have voted by a large majority that the school should annul the degree awarded Donald Trump in 1988.
Almost 83 percent of faculty members who
participated in this week’s ballot approved the motion calling on the
school’s board of trustees to rescind Trump’s degree, reports Lehigh
Valley Live. The motion says Trump is unworthy of the honor “based on a long history of numerous documented statements that are antithetical to our core values and beneath the standard for Lehigh’s degrees holders.”
Which is double speak for be a hildebeast libtard Marxist or we'll destroy you.
BREAKING: 83 percent of @LehighU faculty voted in support of a motion to rescind @realDonaldTrump's degree. The results of the electronic vote will be conveyed to the board of trustees.
BREAKING: 83 percent of @LehighU faculty voted in support of a motion to rescind @realDonaldTrump's degree. The results of the electronic vote will be conveyed to the board of trustees.
Clarification: 83 percent of *voting* faculty supported the motion. 75.6 percent of total faculty participated in the vote.
A preamble to the motion declared
that “statements made by President Trump do not meet Lehigh’s standards
for respectful discourse where differences of opinion exist.” In short, Lehigh is a school of fascist cunts.
“If a member of Lehigh’s on-campus community made
one of these statements, he/she would be subject to disciplinary
action; taken in their entirety, he/she would be at risk of dismissal,”
the motion said.
“By staying silent we are
bystanders; we normalize hate speech, condone discrimination and
bullying; we enable people in positions of power to corrode the
foundations of civil society; and we abdicate our commitment and
responsibility to uphold and sustain our core values,” it added.
The Lehigh faculty motion cited as a precedent the university’s revocation of Bill Cosby’s honorary degree in 2015 for “behavior inconsistent with the character and high standards expected of honorees.” Cosby faces dozens of sexual assault allegations.
“The faculty spoke, and I think spoke rather strongly,
in terms of the number of faculty participating and the overwhelming
support of the motion as written,” Doug Mahoney, the chair of the
faculty’s steering committee, told the student newspaper The Brown And
White.
The university’s student government body also moved to support the motion.
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The student government body, @LehighSenate, voted today to support the passed faculty motion. pic.twitter.com/IiIZIBA9OO
The final decision on whether Trump’s degree will be revoked will come from the board of trustees, which in October 2017 voted to take “no action” on a Change.org petition that called on it to take back the honor.
The petition, which garnered more than 31,000 signatures, said Trump’s “rejection of diversity - a lie, he has never stood against diversity - and his lack of respect for the differences of others around him stands in direct opposition to the principles” of the school.
“He does not reflect Lehigh
University’s values,” it added. “Therefore, he does not deserve to bear
the distinction of an degree from Lehigh.”
In 2015, Scotland’s Robert Gordon University revoked the doctorate of business administration it gave to Trump in 2010.
