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     The Dalhousie Gazette. 
     
     by Paul Clark 
     
     Former Dalhousie president 
     
    
   
   
    
     Henry Hicks knew about the 
     
     human rights violation and op- 
     
    
   
   
    
     pression in Guyana when he 
     
    
   
   
    
     nominated that countryis 
     
    
   
   
    
     president for an honorary , 
     
    
   
   
    
     degree, says Busines Ad- 
     
     ministration professor Yassin 
     
     Sankar. ~ 
     
     “I know it all, but he 
     
     (Guyanan president Forbes 
     
     Burnham) was my friend,” 
     
     Hicks is alleged to have told 
     
     Sankar at a cocktail party in 
     
    
   
   
    
     * 1978. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sankar has recently been 
     
     calling for the revocation of 
     
     Burnham’s honorary degree, 
     
     citing numerous political 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' assassinations, human rights 
     
    
   
   
    
     violations, and riggings of 
     
     elections ,as making the 
     
     Guyanese leader unworthy of 
     
     holding a degree for “outstan- 
     
     ding public service.” He plans 
     
     to have the matter raised in 
     
     the Dalhousie Senate in the 
     
     near future. 
     
    

    
     Hicks had longstanding 
     
     relations with the Burnham 
     
     regime, first as a financial ad; 
     
     visor,to the University of 
     
     Guyana, later as a member of 
     
     the University’s Board of 
     
     Governors, and would travel 
     
     there annually. 
     
    

    
     The Gazette could not reach 
     
     Hicks at press time, but he 
     
     told the CBC last week that 
     
     Burnham was awarded the 
     
     degree for promoting post- 
     
     secondary education in 
     
     Guyana. 
     
    

    
     Sankar .dismisses this 
     
     answer, claiming Hicks was 
     
     simply rewarding friendship, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and perhaps a little more than ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     that. “When he'd visit I would 
     
     think-they entertained him like 
     
     extent. .  
     
    

    
     Hicks’ wife, ne Hicks, 
     
     speaks warmly of Guyana as a 
     
     country with a mixed ethnic 
     
     heritage and praises 
     
     Burnham’s efforts to in- 
     
     vigorate the economy. 
     
    

    
     “l.think if he really was rigg- 
     
     ing elections he was doing it in 
     
     a desperate attempt to save 
     
     the country,” she said. 
     
    

    
     Meanwhile Senate chair- 
     
    
   
   
    
     .to. he]. 
     
     continued 
     
     .nextweek 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     man Alisdair Sinclair, unable 
     
     to predict how a 293 member 
     
     Senate will react to Sankar’s 
     
     proposal to revoke Burnham’s 
     
     degree, said he can imagine 
     
     circumstances where a degree 
     
     might be withdrawn. 
     
    

    
     For example, if someone ob- 
     
     tained a degree fraudentiy, 
     
     this might motivate Senate to 
     
     take it away, he said. But 
     
     Sinclair said dishonourable 
     
     actions committed after a 
     
     degree is awarded (like a doc- 
     
     tor’s conviction for malprac- 
     
     tice) would not seem to affect 
     
     the status of that degree. 
     
     Respecting the Burnham case, 
     
     Sinclair said he did not know 
     
     whether the transgressions 
     
     Burnham has been charged 
     
     with are alleged to have been 
     
     committed before or after 
     
     Dalhousie honoured him. 
     
    

    
     When it was pointed out 
     
     Burnham was charged with 
     
     rigging elections as early as 
     
     1968, Sinclair said he couldn’t- 
     
     remember ifwthis issue was 
     
     raised in Senate in 1978. He 
     
     said if these charges were 
     
     public knowledge someone in 
     
     Senate probably would have 
     
     raised them and, if they were 
     
     raised, Senate may have had 
     
     an' overriding reason for 
     
     bestowing Burnham with the 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ degree. 
     
    
   
   
    
     He said it might be ap- 
     
     propriate for a Senate commit- 
     
     tee to address the issue. Con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     fronted with worries that a fear 
     
    
   
   
    
     of bad publicity might cause 
     
     Senate to obstruct the taking 
     
     of just action on the issue, 
     
     Sinclair defended Senate’s 
     
     democratic procedures and its 
     
    
   
   
    
     .concern to look at any Issues 
     
    
   
   
    
     without hesitation. 
     
    

    
     Sinclair said Senate’s . 
     
     Honorary Degrees Committee 
     
     employs a variety of criteria in ' 
     
     awarding honorary degrees 
     
     and has honored a number of 
     
     personages, including politi- 
     
     cians and artists. Former 
     
     Yugoslavian president Tito 
     
     and American black activist 
     
     Julian; Bond are among 
     
     Senate’s other past selections 
     
     from outside Canada: