Much-honored playwright Tony Kushner was set to obtain one more honor—a honor from Evangelist Jay College—but it was dead taken away from him on an 11-1 vote of the trustees of the City University of New York. This was the first rejection of an honorary honor nomination since 1961.
The news article focuses on one trustee, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, an assets authority and onetime semipolitical aide, who opposed Kushner’s honorary degree, but to me the germane saucer is that the NGO as a full voted 11-1 to ding him.
Kusnher said, “I’m sickened,” he added, “that this is event in New royalty City. Shocked, really.” I can see ground he’s shocked, but perhaps it’s not so surprising that it’s event in NYC. Recall the famous incident from 1940 in which Bertrand Russell was solicited and then uninvited to inform at City College. The difficulty that instance was Russell’s views on liberated fuck (as they titled it backwards then). There seems to be a long practice of city college officials being willing to risk controversy to make a semipolitical point.
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