BOOKS, NOT BOMBS: SAY NO TO BUSH POLITICAL INSTIT Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	Name	Comments
1	Rev. John R. Johnson
2	John M. Halstead	Full professor and dept. chair. Shame on SMU administration for letting politics and payola demean the University's reputation!
3	Richard Ullom
4	Richard Alan Peters II	Assoc. Prof. Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
5	Edward Burmila
6	Dr. William Hardin	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. .
7	Ollie Nanyes	SMU should care about its academic reputation. This would harm it.
8	Kathleen Braun
9	Scott Pyne
10	Dr.John Clarke	I'm sure that there are other venues suitable for non-academic holdings:Crawford, TX perchance?
11	Doyle Srader	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.
12	Anonymous	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).
13	Anonymous	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).
14	Benjamin Phillips
15	Anonymous	There are far too many existing conservative "Think Tanks" in America.We should be encouraging the search for knowledege not corporate profits.FP
16	Donald C. Freeman	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.
17	Arthur Ott	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.
18	Elizabeth McLane
19	Anonymous	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.
20	James Herrod	My parents taught me that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all, so...
21	Charlie Shaffer
22	Susanne Johnson, Ph.D.	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!
23	Anonymous
24	Laura Isabel Serna
25	Robert Garrett
26	Amy Greenberg
27	Carrie Rampp	I am an alumna of SMU, M.A. History '97.
28	Peter Cahn
29	Kathryn M. Ryan
30	Francesca Morgan	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.
31	Giles Knox	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.
32	Alison M. Parker
33	laray polk
34	Dr. David J. Wilson	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.
35	Charissa N. Terranova
36	Natalie Ring
37	julie alholm
38	Anonymous	Former lecturer at Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion
39	James P Wilson, MD	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 history
40	Linda Kahn
41	Lawrence Culver
42	Dennis P. Walsh	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.
43	Gerald L. Soliday
44	M. Trent	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.
45	Anonymous	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.
46	Elke Matijevich
47	Alan Cattier
48	Doug Paterson	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.
49	John Patrick Sullivan	The Bush library will do irreparable harm to the reputation of SMU.
50	You are all hypocrites	The only partisans I see supporting this petition are the people that want to propagate their own partisan beliefs. Do not tell me that you are righteous as a group that says they speak for freedom of speech and are the moral and good methodists. If you are you would see past their hatred of President Bush and be open to opinions that may conflict with their own beliefs. How can you say your beliefs are necessarily correct?? You act to censor views that don't align with your own. How can that be right?? This is an excellent opportunity for SMU and Dallas. Don't let your hatred blow it for this excellent school. Liberalism and Conservatism can co-exist. Students will have to judge what is ultimately aligns with their belief systems. They should not be censored. You can say you have my name as a signer of this petition, but I am writing to make you think reasonably about your signature.