Oregon State University will honor 42 Japanese-American students who were forced to leave school for a government internment camp in 1941, the Daily Barometer reports. OSU will give 22 honorary degrees to the surviving individuals and family members representing others at its commencement ceremony June 15.
"The honorary degrees are an opportunity for people to recognize the gravity of the situation then," said Noboru Endow, one of the evacuated students, "and the gravity of the situation now for civil-rights infringements that take place when we're at war." (More Japan stories.)