<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Honor Students, Not War Criminals!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">NO DEGREE FOR ANDREW CARD</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Community members: Please join UMass students, faculty, and staff in</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">opposing an honorary degree for this architect of the Iraq War.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Where: Mullins Center, UMass</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">When:12:15 p.m., Friday, May 25th</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">What: Protest outside UMass Graduate Commencement</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Bring all your creative energy to help us remind UMass of its values!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We'll have STREET THEATER, the RAGING GRANNIES, and MORE!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Remember that graduate students deserve our respect. Honor them while</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">holding Card and the UMass administration accountable!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP ORGANIZE, PLEASE EMAIL</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><A href="mailto:webmaster%40northamptoncommittee.org"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">webmaster@northampt</SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">oncommittee.org</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">OTHERWISE, JUST SHOW UP!!!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Andrew Card is responsible for the lies and distortions that led to the</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Iraq war and occupation. He is therefore not eligible for an honorary</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">degree which can be awarded only to "persons of great accomplishment</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">and high ethical standards who exemplify the ideals of the University of</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Massachusetts".</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">It is now an undisputed fact that the Bush Administration knowingly and</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">deliberately used lies and distortions to persuade the American public</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was necessary. The two major</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">arguments that were advanced to justify the war were: (a) that Iraq</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">possessed weapons of mass destruction; and (b) that there was a link</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">between the attacks of 9/11 and Iraq. It has now been confirmed by many</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">sources (including George Tenet, Former Director of the CIA) that these</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">were not just "failures of intelligence," but deliberate</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">falsifications aimed at confusing and scaring American citizens to</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">support an illegal war. An internal memo detailing the minutes of a</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">meeting of Tony Blair's top ministers reported that "the</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" by the</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Bush administration. The resulting illegal war has led to the deaths and</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">injuries of thousands of American soldiers, as well as the deaths of</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">hundreds of thousand of Iraqis. In addition the international reputation</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">of the United States is in tatters, and the world has never been more</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">dangerous. On every single count, the lies and deceptions of the Bush</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">administration regarding the war in Iraq have been globally disastrous.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">As President Bush's Chief of Staff Andrew Card was a founding member</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) that cherry-picked the evidence and</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">oordinated the propaganda campaign designed to deceive public opinion.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">This has been confirmed by a wide range of experts -- including</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">published work in peer-reviewed journals -- as well as government</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">insiders.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Awarding an honorary degree to Andrew Card therefore brings great</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">disrepute to the University and makes a mockery of any of its attempts</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">to join the ranks of the top tier research schools in the country. To</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">honor a person who is guilty of such blatant intellectual dishonesty</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">destroys any idea that the University is a serious academic institution</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">committed to basic values of truth and honesty. It tarnishes anyone</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">connected with the University.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><A href="http://northamptoncommittee.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://northamptonc</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ommittee.org <</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://northamptoncommittee.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3467AA">http://northamptonc</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ommittee.org></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>