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Well, it didn't take too much digging to find out that Derek doesn't really sign all those degrees himself. In fact, not a single undergraduate or graduate diploma sports an authentic Derek Curtis Bok autograph...
...Otherwise no one would get their diploma on Commencement day," says Elizabeth Rew, a staff assistant in the Faculty's Office of the Registrar. "But the signatures look very real--not like they're just rubber-stamped...
...many graduates, recent final exams and last-minute grade changes kept the status of honors and other diploma citations in flux until as late as this week. So even if Bok wanted to sign them all, or could clear his schedule for a couple of weeks to do so, there's no way he possibly could finish in time, Rew explains...
...student organization to invite any person whose views some may find repellent. I disagree with the policies of the Reagan administration, I think the Soviet Union is an "evil empire", and I strongly disapprove of the PLO but I will forever defend the right of Caspar Weinberger, a Soviet diploma or a PLO spokesman to speak on this campus I might protest their presence peacefully but will not interfere with their entry into or exit from the University, or the presentation itself, when I--as a member of a student organization--expect others to aspect my rights to invite...
...denied military service in World War II (4-F because of a childhood case of rheumatic fever), took an engineering degree from Lehigh University (B+) and then spent a year at Princeton (M.A.). "I wasn't interested in a snob degree," he says in Iacocca, despite the Ivy League diploma. "I was after the bucks...