Talk:Claremont Graduate University

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Claiming as alumni three people whose only connection to the school is that they received honorary degrees is pretty lame. The reason it matters if someone noteworthy is an alum is that presumably the school played a part in making him into the noteworthy person he became. Someone who just shows up one day -- after becoming noteworthy, no less -- for a ceremony doesn't have this kind of connection. Besides, some people have dozens of honorary degrees and is makes no sense to say that they are alumni of each school which gave them one.

The lists of notable alumni and faculty need some information about why these individuals are notable. Aside from Peter Drucker and, to a lesser extent, Kip Thorne (who's only an honorary alum anyway) none of the people listed has much name recognition among the public.