Petition for Sewanee to Revoke Charlie Rose's Honorary Degree

Do better, Sewanee!

C'95 Revoke Charlie Rose's honorary degree. Shame on you for not doing it immediately.

Sewanee, please do better than this.

Sewanee, you can and must do better. May this be a watershed moment.

Honoring a dishonorable person was an innocent mistake; continuing to honor and defend an admitted sexual assaulter is not innocent, but still a grave mistake. The choice to couch the decision in language of bad Christian theology, not supported by the University’s own School of Theology, is morally and academically suspect. Before lecturing us all on reconciliation, please consider your duty to reconciliation with students, faculty, alumnae, and potential new students, rather than a wealthy and powerful celebrity. This debate means little to Charlie Rose. Meanwhile those listed above, to whom you have fiduciary responsibility, are telling you in myriad ways how important it is to us.

The choice to forgive is the right of the victim(s). Sewanee needs to remove itself from Mr. Rose’s circumstances and revoke the degree. Otherwise it simply perpetuates a system that encourages sexual abuse and misconduct. Sewanee does not need Mr. Rose. Mr. Rose does not need Sewanee. Cristina Cruz LeFebvre C’03

Honorary degrees should not be given to those who have no honor.

As a Sewanee graduate I demand that Charlie Rose's honorary degree be revoked.

John McCardell has been making unilateral decisions on Title IX cases and incidents of domestic and sexual assault on Sewanee’s campus for too long. It’s time that we hear from the survivors rather than the man who protects their attackers.

Continuing to allow Charlie Rose to possess an honorary degree flies in the face of that for which all of our university SHOULD stand for and we must accordingly and swiftly.

This is not what Jesus would do.

It’s more than a metaphor, it’s a confirmation that you don’t get to do these things and have awards or accolades.

Go Eliana!!!!

C’2002

Maybe there are some Dean's Office members we should get rid of as well.

As a member of the Class of 1975, I implore the board to withdraw the honorary degree granted to Charlie Rose. He is a man without honor. We must not support a man who violates women.

(C'88) I am unfortunately not surprised that the Board of Regents and V. C. McCardell responded the way they did. I hope they will now pleasantly surprise me by doing the right thing.

Ashamed to call this my alma mater at this point. CONDEMN Charlie Rose and revoke his degree with the same if not greater tenacity you take it from students who are ousted by the honor council system.

As a woman in a male dominated industry, I cannot turn a blind eye to sexual misconduct, harassment or bullying.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. (Albert Einstein)