Bush derangement syndrome is alive and well.
Via NRO:
The University of Denver recently announced that it is scrapping its plans to present George W. Bush with the “Improving the Human Condition Award” at the 16th annual Korbel Dinner in September.
The alteration came in the wake of protests by DU students and faculty who were appalled by the notion of presenting the former president with a humanitarian award. An online petition drafted by a 2012 graduate of the university’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies urged the school to “choose an alternative recipient” who “better represents a humanitarian spirit, a commitment to human rights and human dignity, and whose contributions and leadership have truly resulted in positive change.” The petition received nearly 1,500 signatures.
A group of 20 or so faculty members of the graduate school also issued a letter to university officials last week declaring that they were “shocked, disappointed and embarrassed” that the award would be given to, in the words of Korbel professor Alan Gilbert, “an unrepentant war criminal who violated the convention against torture.”
In the wake of these demands, the university decided that Bush will still be the keynote speaker at the fundraising event, though he will not be receiving the award previously bestowed on prominent public figures such as Condoleezza Rice, George Casey, and Madeleine Albright.