The prestige of honorary degrees falls to record lows.
Note: "Not a few universities have been caught by the twists of history, awarding an honorary degree to someone who later turns out to be a dictator or other species of political monster: the University of Edinburgh and the University of Massachusetts (Boston) conferred honorary degrees on Robert Mugabe that one may be sure they wished they hadn't." Mugabe is the president of Zimbabwe, he 'won' the 2002 election after his opponent was arrested for treason. He's one of the world's worst human rights offenders, "according to the World Health Organization, Zimbabwe has the world’s shortest life expectancy—37 years for men and 34 for women." He's no Kermit the Frog…
