Alumni and faculty at the alma mater of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, are calling on university officials to rescind an honorary degree awarded to her as punishment for voting to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh earlier this month.
More than 1,800 alumni and dozens of faculty at St. Lawrence University are sending letters to university officials on Tuesday demanding they take back an honorary degree the senator received in 2017. Collins graduated from the tiny liberal arts college in northern New York in 1975, and she has received two honorary degrees from the school, mostly recently an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters. -- MORE....
