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UCSF Honors Ex-Students Interned During WWII

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Dec 4, 2009 8:41 pm US/Pacific

UCSF Honors Ex-Students Interned During WWII

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / AP) ― Sixty-eight former students of the University of California, San Francisco who were interned because of their Japanese descent during World War II are finally getting their degrees.

UCSF held a ceremony Friday to award honorary degrees to the former students. Many are being honored posthumously.

Three other UC campuses — Davis, Berkeley and Los Angeles — will follow with ceremonies during commencement.

More than 700 UC students were affected in 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order allowing the U.S. military to send people of Japanese descent to internment camps.

In July, the UC Regents voted to suspend the university system's 37-year moratorium on honorary degrees to acknowledge the former internees.

(© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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