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Name: John M. Halstead on Apr 10, 2007Comments: Full professor and dept. chair. Shame on SMU administration for letting politics and payola demean the University's reputation!Flag
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Name: Richard Alan Peters II on Apr 10, 2007Comments: Assoc. Prof. Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TNFlag
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Name: Dr. William Hardin on Apr 10, 2007Comments: Inclusion of a partisan think-tank at SMU will further damage the reputation of SMU, beyond the stain of hosting the George W. Bush presidential library. .Flag
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Name: Ollie Nanyes on Apr 10, 2007Comments: SMU should care about its academic reputation. This would harm it.Flag
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Name: Dr.John Clarke on Apr 10, 2007Comments: I'm sure that there are other venues suitable for non-academic holdings:Crawford, TX perchanceFlag
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Name: Doyle Srader on Apr 10, 2007Comments: Southern Methodist University should be ashamed of itself. Scholars of conscience should consider boycotting it. Its accrediting agency should ask some hard questions about this.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 10, 2007Comments: I'm a prof at another school and I'm tired of our presidents using colleges for their own personal political agendas (especially the corporatization movement in the Friedman school of thought/economics).Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 10, 2007Comments: I'm a prof at another school and I'm tired of our presidents using colleges for their own personal political agendas (especially the corporatization movement in the Friedman school of thought/economics).Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 10, 2007Comments: There are far too many existing conservative "Think Tanks" in America.We should be encouraging the search for knowledege not corporate profits.FPFlag
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Name: Donald C. Freeman on Apr 10, 2007Comments: I am emeritus professor of English, University of Southern California. No reputable academic institution should agree to host a "library" under these conditions. I salute the SMU faculty for resisting its administration's incursion into what is solely a faculty prerogative: intellectual matters and the integrity with which they are pursued.Flag
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Name: Arthur Ott on Apr 10, 2007Comments: This "man", George W. Bush, has been a blight on this country. He will go down in history as the worst president in US history and an enemy of democracy, here and abroad.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 11, 2007Comments: I am a retired Texas schoolteacher. Libraries should never take a point of view. If George W. Bush wants a think-tank to justify his presidency, then he can build it. However, it should not be built at a University.Flag
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Name: James Herrod on Apr 11, 2007Comments: My parents taught me that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all, so...Flag
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Name: Susanne Johnson, Ph.D. on Apr 11, 2007Comments: To include a politically partisan institute on a university campus in a democratic society is utterly inappropriate, and should be repudiated by fellow educators all around the globe! In making these plans, SMU is being unconscionable, and should be denounced by fellow "benchmark" universties, as well as by those universities to whose status it aspires. The Bush political institute sounds the death knell for ever reaching those goals!Flag
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Name: Francesca Morgan on Apr 13, 2007Comments: I agree, this is an entirely different matter from (say) the Hoover Institution at Stanford. And a very alarming trend. I applaud the SMU faculty for standing up.Flag
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Name: Giles Knox on Apr 13, 2007Comments: I am a former professor at SMU and know well of the forces ranged against the protesting group of faculty. I wish them the best in their struggle.Flag
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Name: Dr. David J. Wilson on Apr 13, 2007Comments: I join this list specifically to express my strong opposition not only to locating a politically partisan institute on the SMU campus, but also in protest to the policies of the current Bush administration that include the morally reprehensible spreading of the American brand of democracy by military force. We are currently vilified around the world for carrying out these policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and I strongly believe that it does matter that SMU never be perceived as somehow supporting, however indirectly, such immoral polltical doctrines by permitting the institute to be located here.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 13, 2007Comments: Former lecturer at Harvard University, Committee on the Study of ReligionFlag
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Name: James P Wilson, MD on Apr 13, 2007Comments: As Dr. Turner said in his letter to concerned alumni,"...when a president is in office everything is political; when he leaves it all becomes historical, and history is the purview of the University." I suppose president Turner and the Board of Tustees is not satisfied with the myriad of historically poor choices it has made in the past, i.e. athletic slush funds, corrupt recruiting practices resulting in the NCAA Death Penalty. The decision to accept an institute dedicated to the corrupt and failed neoconservative ideology seems ro mesh well with SMU's purview of historyFlag
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Name: Dennis P. Walsh on Apr 13, 2007Comments: SMU risks its academic reputation and credibility should it align itself with a prposed Bush-related, partisan institute. Indeed, it may already have compromised its integrity by agreeing to the Bush Library and Museum. SMU would be wise to delay, if not retreat from, any connection with the Bush administration, keeping in mind the weary adage about lying down with dogs and rising with fleas.Flag
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Name: M. Trent on Apr 13, 2007Comments: I am not a teacher, but am an alumna of SMU. I have returned by diploma with a letter of protest to the president of the university. I urge other alums to join in this protest.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 13, 2007Comments: As a member of the SMU faculty, but also a member of the profession at large, I wish to protest the dangerous allignment of big business (SMU's Trustees and donors), partisan politics (the Bush wing of the Republican party), and higher education (the SMU administration & its "yes men") that this unprecedented and unprincipled plan to house a partisan political Institute on a university campus represents.Flag
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Name: Doug Paterson on Apr 14, 2007Comments: W stands for the "Worst". The Worst president of the US ever. Why would any university want to make any kind of an alliance with the Worst But beyond this, he is the most anti-intellectual of all Presidents since the 19th century, the most extravagantly ignorant of all presidents, the most divisively partisan, the most isolated, the most proudly ignorant, the most cruel, the most embarassing, the most corrupt, the most unprepared, the most inhumane, the most unethical, the most out of touch, and the most nurtured on the bitter vinegar of incipient US fascism. Why would any university want to have any relationship with him or his But even beyond this, he not only lies, hides, and covers up as a matter of daily policy, but he glories, even gloats, like the radio rattlesnakes that promote his agenda, in dressing his fat pig of deception in the speedo of the good ol' boy "doncha know, huh, huh, huh." He couldn't find a library, to say find anything constructive to do in it or what to do when he left. I would support building the library only as long as it is built over his shallow forgotten grave.Flag
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Name: John Patrick Sullivan on Apr 14, 2007Comments: The Bush library will do irreparable harm to the reputation of SMU.Flag