Wizardman has now posted the proposed decision
here.
I hadn't realized that Ottava Rima had also called John Beer from Cambridge a "hack". He and his wife Gillian, or rather Dame Gillian, were not the greatest fans of Jacques Derrida. There were votes of "placet" and 'non placet" in the Senate House for a proposed honorary doctorate which closed off the middle of Cambridge one Saturday morning in the 90s..