{"id":485398,"date":"2019-05-04T07:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=831282"},"modified":"2019-05-04T07:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T13:05:01","slug":"see-jack-white-receive-honorary-doctorate-from-wayne-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-jack-white-receive-honorary-doctorate-from-wayne-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"See Jack White Receive Honorary Doctorate From Wayne State University"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jack White<\/a> received an honorary doctorate from Wayne State University during the Detroit college\u2019s commencement event Friday.<\/p>\n

White, donning a cap and gown for the ceremony, was honored for his \u201cdedication to the city of Detroit and significant contribution to the arts,\u201d Wayne State president Roy Wilson said in his introduction.<\/p>\n

Wilson also detailed some of White\u2019s philanthropic efforts<\/a> in the city: His effort to restore Clark Park, how he saved the Masonic Temple from tax foreclosure and how his Third Man record plant helped revitalize midtown Detroit.<\/p>\n

White, who briefly attended film classes at Wayne State in 1994, was then given the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, formally making the rocker \u201cDr. White\u201d before the rocker addressed the graduates. (White\u2019s honorary degree begins at the 50-minute mark of the above video.)<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a teenager, I was a busboy in this building, so it\u2019s nice to be back here for a different reason,\u201d White joked of the Fox Theatre venue. He then talked about his brief time at Wayne State, where one film class\u2019 analysis of The Graduate<\/em> impacted him as an artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an epiphany that has stayed with me to this day: That not all of art and creation was by happy accident. That much of it was done with purpose and it was not only okay to do this, but the fulfillment of creativity to be able to convey ideas and metaphors at every possible moment,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned more from that one film (Citizen Kane<\/em>) and one scene in The Graduate<\/em>, about expression and purpose, to last me a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack White received an honorary doctorate from Wayne State University during the Detroit college\u2019s commencement event Friday. White, donning a cap and gown for the ceremony, was honored for his \u201cdedication to the city of Detroit and significant contribution to the arts,\u201d Wayne State president Roy Wilson said in his introduction. Wilson also detailed some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 15:34:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}