Contrast: "No honorary degree for Obama from Arizona State"

While Notre Dame's administration trips over itself trying to sell the farm, Arizona State keeps its head:

PHOENIX - If President Barack Obama expects an honorary degree when he gives the spring commencement address at Arizona State University, school officials will have to tell him "no we can't."

Obama, who will to speak May 13 to ASU graduates on the Tempe campus, will not be given an honorary degree, an honor universities typically give to commencement speakers.

"It's our practice to recognize an individual for his body of work, somebody who's been in their position for a long time," Sharon Keeler, an ASU spokeswoman, told The Associated Press. "His body of work is yet to come. That's why we're not recognizing him with a degree at the beginning of his presidency." (AP)

How embarassing for Notre Dame's administration.