my alma mater, the school of the art institute, just rescinded ye's honorary doctorate.

[mopinko]

almuni rose up and started this petition.
we won.

https://www.change.org/p/school-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago-rescind-kanye-west-s-honorary-doctorate?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_35125010_en-US%3A9&recruiter=11400844&recruited_by_id=8e04e6d0-6278-0130-44f0-3c764e04b20e&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&share_bandit_exp=initial-35125010-en-US

[TlalocW]

1. Interestingly

The guy Ye is swooning over was also rejected by art school...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Yeah

[progressoid]

3. I don't understand why he got one in the first place.

Regardless, I'm glad they rescinded it.

[mopinko]

4. tbh, i never listened to him.

know literally nothing about him. wouldnt know if he was great at 1 time or not. but that’s what folks think.
i also think it was prolly on brand for the school at the time. they were rly growing at that point, and trying to make themselves an international force. this is just the sort of press that they were looking for at that time.

[progressoid]

5. To be fair,

a lot of higher learning institutions have given out honorary degrees like that. I don't mean to single SAIC out.

I'm familiar with a few of his "songs". They're average pop songs. Nothing groundbreaking IMHO.

[mopinko]

6. of course they do, but they were very much puffing themselves up at every chance at that time.

not long after i left, they realized they made a lot more money off international students.
but like most places att, there was racism, and some incidents, and i’m sure this was an effort to ‘fix’ that.
i dont think it played well in japan.

[riversedge]

7. good to hear.

[TheBeam19]

8. So we shouldn't call him Dr. West anymore?

[elleng]

9. Good.

Wish they'd honored my former husband, a many years ago graduate, imo a GREAT artist who appears go have been ignored by too many. (Will try to post one of his pics later.)

[live love laugh]

11. Would love to see the pic.

[elleng]

12. Here, cover of poetry book by a friend of his:

[live love laugh]

13. Very nice. Thanks for sharing it.

[Paladin]

10. Outstanding. (nt)