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Hey Donald – You’re Fired!

By Brian | April 4, 2006 | Share on Facebook

The University of Pennsylvania, Donald Trump’s alma mater, is giving The Donald’s major casino competitor, Steve Wynn, an honorary degree this year.

Can you get an honorary degree from a university where you’ve already earned an actual degree? Probably not when you’ve got billions of dollars and haven’t donated much (if anything) to the school all these years…

Topics: University of Pennsylvania | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Hey Donald – You’re Fired!”

  1. Michael Weinmayr says at April 4th, 2006 at 8:30 am :
    Steve Wynn must have some connection to Penn; he also ran the Pennultimate concert during the 250th celebration (the one with the Band, the Glee Club, Dolly Parton, and Bill Cosby). There’s a photo of the Glee Club baritones and basses, Bill Cosby, and Steve Wynn.

  2. Jeff Porten says at April 4th, 2006 at 10:18 pm :
    Class of ’63, according to Wikipedia.

    If I had known I’d get to run a casino, I might have gone to Wharton.

  3. Brian says at April 4th, 2006 at 10:29 pm :
    Sorry, Jeff, apparently you don’t need Wharton:

    http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v52/n24/commencement-a.html#sw

    Mr. Wynn graduated with a B.A. degree in English Literature from Penn in 1963. Mr. Wynn is active in the community and has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Sierra Nevada College in northern Nevada. He is chairman of the University of Utah

  4. Jeff Porten says at April 5th, 2006 at 12:34 pm :
    Seems to me, if you get an honorary doctorate, that’s a great way to annoy the heck out of your friends with actual Ph.Ds.