What a bunch of jokers

Let's see--a bunch of college kids throwing a boo-fest over a former Bush figure being awarded an honorary degree? Yep, plausible. FACULTY MEMBERS joining in the chorus, some while standing on stage with the honoree?

The boos and catcalls -- including those from faculty who stood on stage with Card -- drowned out Provost Charlena Seymour's remarks as she awarded the degree. Protesters claim Card lied to the American people in the early days of the Iraq war and should not have been honored at the graduate student commencement.

Classy move, UMass. Can they put teachers on double secret probation, too? Yeah, yeah, there were good reasons:

"For the university to so cynically disregard the question of intellectual integrity when it becomes convenient to pursue money and power is the wrong message to send," she said.

It's safe to say this "educator" wouldn't know intellectual integrity if it smacked her upside the head.

The tiff began, according to the AP, when the students got upset the university wouldn't rescind a degree given to Robert Mugabe in 1986. Let's see, murderous dictator versus Andy Card. It's a tie! Can we blame Saddam for this?

At least Card didn't get a banana cream pie in the face. Hey, maybe during the next ceremony the idiot faculty members can just bring pies on stage and hurl them from close range while booing. Or perhaps just gang tackle the honoree or fire a poison dart into their neck (not a real gun). All in the name of opinion diversity and intellectual integrity, of course.