...but Arizona State is my new favorite school:

President Obama is to give the commencement address May 13 at the university's Tempe campus. But he's not going to be given an honorary degree.

"It's our practice to recognize an individual for his body of work, somebody who's been in their position for a long time," Sharon Keeler, an ASU spokeswoman, told The Associated Press. "His body of work is yet to come. That's why we're not recognizing him with a degree at the beginning of his presidency."

In other words, he's, um, not very experienced. Heh.

Needless to say, this has all the right people, including the author of the article and this Huffyposter, chagrined. They both note that the University conferred honorary degrees on Barry Goldwater and Sandra Day O'Connor (the former after "only" eight years—more than a full term, I might add—in the Senate, the latter after "only" three years on the U.S. Supreme Court) without noting that both Goldwater and O'Connor were, uh, Arizonans.

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