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Alfred University will award an honorary degree Saturday to Warren Sutton (at right), who enrolled as a student in 1957 and succeeded both academically and as a basketball player. But in his junior year, he left Alfred under pressure from administrators. Sutton, who is black, had started dating a white woman whose father was an administrator and who orchestrated the pressure for him to leave. He eventually moved to Canada. An Alfred history professor, Gary Ostrower, was a classmate of Sutton, and told Mark Zupan, Alfred's new president, about what the administrator did to Sutton. Zupan reached out and apologized, and their communications led to the honorary degree to be awarded Saturday. An account from the university is here.
