Jack Lessenberry, a member of Wayne State 's journalism faculty, opines about recent honors bestowed upon civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo. Last week, Wayne State University 's Organization of Black Alumni (OBA) honored Viola Liuzzo with its top award at its annual banquet. When Liuzzo died, she was a student at Wayne State . Tara Young, a member of the OBA, has been fighting to get WSU to give Liuzzo a posthumous degree, but so far the university has said no. "They say they have rules that they can't give a degree to a dead person," Young says. "That's the least they could do after her sacrifice." Lessenberry concludes that Liuzzo deserves an honorary degree from the nursing school and that "there ought to be something on campus named for her."