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	<title><![CDATA[POLL: 79% Of ASU Faculty Say Obama Should Receive Honorary Degree]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-teo/poll-79-of-asu-faculty-sa_b_188331.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>TEMPE, ARIZONA - This week, two Arizona State University physics professors, Mike Thorpe and Jose Menendez, polled ASU faculty on whether President Barack Obama should receive an honorary degree when he delivers the commencement speech next month. </p>

<p>When news broke last week that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-teo/asu-stiffs-obama-claim-to_b_185296.html">ASU may not confer the customary honorary degree on Obama</a>, it ignited a public backlash and a media firestorm. This week, Thorpe and Menendez, who felt faculty had no voice in the process, sent a poll...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-04-17T15:38:00-04:00</date_published>
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