Pennsylvania college rescinds degree awarded to Bill Cosby

As the number of Bill Cosby’s accusers continues to mount, so do the retractions of his honorary degrees.

Although there was not any backlash against Fordham for Cosby’s actions, the university still chose to remove his degree for its own gain.

Alpha Tau Omega says it has revoked the charter and closed its Indiana University chapter following the release of a video purportedly showing a fraternity member performing a sex act on a woman. Revoking them is an administrative formality and public rebuke. He received them from every kind of school, from the very big, like the University of Southern California, to smaller schools, like Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Do the universities do this for everyone it has given an honorary degree?

Cosby’s attorney Martin Singer argued the lawsuit improperly included Cosby’s name, which caused the comedian harm and required him to defend himself against numerous other allegations from women who claim he abused them decades ago. NBC also was inspired by a New York magazine cover story this summer that gathered many of Cosby’s accusers together for a photograph, although Snow said the network had begun working to gather the interviews before that. Other than at church or a wedding you don’t see people like this. “It’s a spiritual experience”.

University spokesman Al Cubbage declined to comment. “If he had followed life’s easy path, our world would never have known this gentle, amusing man whose humor nudges us to achieve our best, whatever career we seek or the circumstances of our lives”.

Spurred by allegations that Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted more than 40 women, colleges around the USA have been rescinding honorary degrees given the comedian, The New York Times reports.

At the start of the rally, Sloan awarded Cosby the honorary doctorate and called him “the icon of American comedy” and one who “turned a hard childhood into a rich tapestry of comedy”. Morehouse College in Atlanta has similarly not rescinded a 1983 honorary degree it gave Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, who has a much criticized record on human rights. Many of its other graduates and honorary degree recipients have no doubt committed just as awful or worse offenses. And many students on college campuses today are often barely familiar with past honorees.

A few schools, including Ohio State University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are still deciding what to do.

“Most of the students now don’t even know who he is unless they look at Netflix or something like that”.