Fordham
University, USA, has withdrawn the honorary doctorate degree they
conferred on comedian Bill Cosby in 2001. This is the first time in the
school’s history a person has lost an honorary degree. Fordham
president, Joseph McShane, introduced a motion to cut Cosby’s doctorate
during a Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, and the board members
unanimously agreed. Here’s the statement the school released to the
students:
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“The
University has taken this extraordinary step in light of Mr. Cosby’s
now-public court depositions that confirm many of the allegations made
against him.
By his own admission, Mr. Cosby’s sexual exploitation
of women was premeditated and ongoing. Equally appalling is his longtime
strategy of denigrating the reputations of women who accused him of
such actions.
That Mr. Cosby was willing to drug and rape women for
his sexual gratification, and further damage those same women’s
reputations and careers to obscure his guilt, hurt not only his victims,
but all women, and is beyond the pale.”
McShane
concluded that the University could no longer stand by the degree it had
awarded Cosby, especially as a Jesuit institution.
Too bad for him that these vile accusations are coming at an age when he should be for his accomplishments.Anazing that his wife's still standing by him
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