Students, faculty to protest Bush award in Denver

[El Supremo]

Source: AP / Denver Post

DENVER—Students, faculty and alumni at the University of Denver plan to protest when the university's international studies school presents an award to former president George W. Bush next week.

Bush will be recognized Monday evening at a fundraising dinner in Denver both for his service as president as well as efforts to fight HIV, cervical cancer and malaria in Africa. The Josef Korbel School's decision has outraged many at the school who fault the 43rd president for starting the war in Iraq and allowing the use of torture on prisoners.

Bush will have a public discussion with the school's dean, former Iraq ambassador Christopher Hill, during the private event at a downtown hotel.

Students and graduates say the award will hurt the international standing of the school, which is named after Josef Korbel, the father of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and is known for its focus on human rights.

"He's tarnishing Korbel's name in an attempt to rebrand Bush as a positive character," said Sara Fitouri, a Korbel and law student at the university who plans to attend the protest....

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24025337/students-faculty-protest-bush-award-denver

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They gave the same award to Condi Rice??? She did go to school there, but....

[No Vested Interest]

1. University of Denver is a private university,

nonsectarian founded by Methodists, according to Wikipedia.

[JackRiddler]

12. So?

[No Vested Interest]

13. DUers need to know

that this is not a public university funded by the state of Colorado or the city of Denver.

Big difference in partisanship of a private college which would make Christopher Hill its president and perhsps espouse partisan views and values and a public university which should clearly be more careful whom it recognizes with honorifics.

[locks]

2. What kind of award can you give to George W Bush?

Christopher Hill, former ambassador to Iraq and dean of the University of Denver, was on PBS Newshour tonight defending the decision to strike Syria militarily. This is embarrassing enough to the fine Josef Korbel School of International Studies and to Colorado; even more outrageous is giving a global service award to W Bush who under international law should be brought before the World Court for allowing torture. He took the US into a war which resulted in the degradation of international human rights and diplomacy, not at all what the students have been learning. Coloradans applaud the DU students, faculty, and alumni who are protesting this "fundraising dinner".

[Left Coast2020]

17. A Pair of Handcuffs.

And an extradition order to the Hague Award.

[gopiscrap]

3. I hope they raise such a ruckus there

that Bust has to leave...we did that to his father in Tacoma on October 27, 1988 as he was campaigning against Dukakis...basically started a small riot.

[marshall]

4. Bush's efforts to combat AIDS in Africa is one of the few things he is lauded for

Obama among others have praised him for that.

So perhaps the move should be to have the award focus solely on that and not "his service as president."

[MADem]

5. Before I even clicked on the link, I thought "If it ain't for the Africa work, they're nutz."

Of course, I am no expert on this school or its 'reputation'--up to this point, if you said "Korbel" I thought...

[warrant46]

15. That's good Champagne !! (American Sparking Wine)

Reasonably priced and produced with the méthode champenoise process. It is American in every respect, a true original.

[7962]

10. Thats what i thought. He did a HUGE amount for that cause.

I always wondered how he decided to make that such a focus, considering so many of his base couldnt care less about AIDS suffering.

[Bragi]

6. Just in time for W's world tour

Wait a minute, W has no world tour, because he can't leave the U.S without worrying about people trying to serve him with war crimes charges. Too bad, Georgie. If it's any comfort to him, at least he can apparently cross state lines.

[hughee99]

14. I expect that would become the norm for future US presidents...

Including Obama when he retires.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. Here's an award worth giving

[lastlib]

9. "The Golden Circling Turd"?

Make it depleted uranium, and I'd go along with it........

[unhappycamper]

11. You mean this one?

[Uncle Joe]

16. They will need to fumigate the place after he's gone.

Thanks for the thread, El Supremo.