| # | Name | Comments |
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| 101 | Brandi Baros | Assistant professor of Biology and Biochemistry
Allegheny College |
| 102 | Martha Ann Selby | Associate Professor of South Asian Studies
The University of Texas at Austin |
| 103 | Anonymous | |
| 104 | Anonymous | Economist, University of Southern California |
| 105 | Ze'ev Rosenkranz | |
| 106 | Rev. Kristen Leslie, Ph.D. | Kristen Leslie, PhD
Associate Prof. of Pastoral Care and Counseling
Yale University Divinity School |
| 107 | Dr. Sean Gulick | Partisan think tanks should be located off campus, while Presidential Libraries are entirely appropriate for on campus. |
| 108 | Ingrid Monson | |
| 109 | Ronald Burriss II | This institution as it is currently described will make SMU, an excellent university, into a mockery among the academic community. |
| 110 | Duncan Young | |
| 111 | Lisa Bingham | |
| 112 | michele lamont | |
| 113 | Dr. Scott Van Keuren | |
| 114 | Anonymous | |
| 115 | barbara j blodgett | |
| 116 | Steven Youra | |
| 117 | Alan Weinstein | Professor of Physics, Caltech |
| 118 | Ebraheem Fontaine | |
| 119 | Robert A Rosenstone | Professor of HIstory
California Institute of Technology |
| 120 | David Statman, Physics | |
| 121 | Anonymous | |
| 122 | Maxwell Stinchcombe | E. C. McCarty Centennial Professor of Economics,
University of Texas at Austin |
| 123 | Jay Geller | |
| 124 | Mark Miller-Mclemore, Vanderbilt Divinity School | |
| 125 | Rev. Leopold | |
| 126 | Viki Matson | |
| 127 | Dr. Joseph T. Eldridge | |
| 128 | Barbara M. Fahy | Albright College, Reading, Pa.
Area: History |
| 129 | Barbara M. Fahy | Albright College, Reading, Pa.
Area: History |
| 130 | Anonymous | |
| 131 | Lela Phillips | Resoundingly NO. |
| 132 | Bonnie Miller-McLemore | Vanderbilt University |
| 133 | Carl Wunsch | |
| 134 | Thomas Reinert | Univ of N Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept of English |
| 135 | Beth Miller | |
| 136 | Beth Miller | |
| 137 | Anonymous | In some circles, SMU has already lost credibility for capitulating to pressure to include an undesirable ideological think tank along with the Presidential Library and Museum. Take the high road, set an example, and "just say no." I've taught in the area of religious studies for thirty years at a prestigious university and have seen a lot come and go. This thing I know: if SMU draws firm boundaries and says no to the partisan institute--it will not automatically lose the library! |
| 138 | Anonymous | |
| 139 | Anonymous | Institute: Johns Hopkins University
Study Area: Civil Engineering |
| 140 | Jason Crowther | Graduate Student, Rice University, Psychology
I think it is perfectly fine for a politician to sponsor a building or library on a university campus. For instance, my undergraduate university, the University of Kansas, has benefited much from the Dole Center. The proposed Bush institute, however, does not sound like philanthropic institution, but one for which Bush expects an ideological “return” on his investment. In truth, I do not see this institute as a “dangerous precedent,” nor do I think the institute would really have as much influence as some may fear. I just do not think it is right. |
| 141 | Brent Smith | Associate Professor
Rice University |
| 142 | Andrew King | Impeach the bastard. And yes, I agree with the petition:
THE PETITION
We, the undersigned, join with SMU professors and others who object to imposing a politically partisan institute on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) as part of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
A politically partisan think tank located at any school, college, or university is contradictory to education as approached within free and democratic societies. The precedent set by it would put academic freedom at risk for faculty at all educational institutions, as well as SMU.
Researchers hired by the institute to pursue the partisan agenda set by George W. Bush will borrow on SMU's credibility in the Academy, while remaining completely unaccountable for their scholarly activity. Therefore we agree that the Bush Foundation should be legally barred from interpreting the institute as SMU-based, or related to SMU in any official way.
We agree that the institute should be completely firewalled from SMU, meaning that no institutional or academic arrangements should exist between SMU and the institute.
Unless the institute is geographically separate from the library and museum, and built away from the campus, it will create the public appearance of being an official academic unit of SMU, undermine SMU's capacity to attract certain high caliber faculty members and students, and lower its academic respectability.
We join in saying a resounding NO to locating a politically partisan institute on the campus of Southern Methodist University or on the campus of any university or school in these United States, or in any free and democratic society around the globe. |
| 143 | Priscilla Wald | |
| 144 | Prof. Laurie Shannon | Duke University, Medieval & Renaissance Studies |
| 145 | Rebecca Lunstroth | |
| 146 | Alexander Sens | Professor of Classics, Georgetown University |
| 147 | Luis H. Zayas, PhD | |
| 148 | Steve Powell | Haven't we had enough of the relentless partisanship of Bush and company? I support the petition: keep SMU intellectually free. |
| 149 | Kusum Ailawadi | |
| 150 | C. Matthew Snipp | |