May 6, 2011
Benno Schmidt, Chair Board of Trustees
City University of New York
535 E. 80th Street
New York, NY 10075
Dear Benno Schmidt:
I am writing to protest the CUNY Board of Trustees’ recent action to override the decision of John Jay College to offer an honorary degree to the playwright Tony Kushner.
I am also writing to find out how to return the honorary degree from John Jay that I was awarded in 2008. It was the greatest honor I had ever received; and my gorgeous yellow-and-blue satin hood, which I am thinking of giving to Mr. Kushner, is—or at least was—one of my most cherished possessions, since I had been selected for the honor by the John Jay faculty in recognition of my scholarship on academic freedom.
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