| # | Name | Comments |
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| 201 | Jane C Maxwell, Ph.D. | Ph.D. 1997 Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 202 | William A. Gamson | |
| 203 | Dr. Joseph A. Soares, Associate Professor, Dept Sociology, Wake Forest University | |
| 204 | Jennifer Hochschild | |
| 205 | Elizabeth Shakman Hurd | Assistant Professor of Political Science
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL |
| 206 | Sarah Babb | Academic institutions should not become affiliated with partisan politics. |
| 207 | Jonathan Zeitlin | |
| 208 | Anonymous | |
| 209 | Ruth Fagan-Wilen | In a free and democratic society, universities must honor open and balanced discourse -- as much for the past and present, as for the future. A partisan Institute in support of any particular political ideology on the SMU campus would harm this incredibly important principle -- and in that case, the Institute should be built elsewhere. |
| 210 | Leslie Salzinger | Associate Professor,
Sociology Department
Boston College |
| 211 | Margaret M Mitchell | |
| 212 | Matthew S. Williams | Teaching Fellow/PhD student
Sociology Department
Boston College |
| 213 | Howard Stein | I wholeheartedly support the efforts of people at SMU to preserve the integrity of an academic institution; more power to you and all praise to you! |
| 214 | Josef Stern | |
| 215 | Andrew V. Ettin | As a faculty member at Wake Forest University for 30 years, I appreciate the value of academic independence. There is a great difference between hosting such an institute and housing papers at an academic research center. |
| 216 | Robert J. Richards | As an academic, I believe it is important for universities to have control in hiring and running any academic center or institute. The proposed Bush Center would not be under the control of the university, and it would push partisan policies. This is quite antithetic to a great university.
Robert J. Richards
University of Chicago |
| 217 | Anonymous | The hypocrisy of Bush's proposal (similar to the charges of accusing judges of political activism when the Republicans/Conservatives are themselves the worst offenders, illustrated by last week's Supreme Court Ruling on abortion) is blatant, and no educated and fair-minded person can support the proposed institute's presence on a university campus. How long are the American people going to tolerate the criminal hypocrisy of the Bush administration and its supporters? If this plan and others like it are what they do in the light of day, imagine what goes on behind closed doors. |
| 218 | Andrew Dilts | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago |
| 219 | Anonymous | I totally agree with the thinking of the advocates of this move. Keep politics to where it belongs and scholarly pursuits on its own. They have separate roles to play in society. |
| 220 | Anonymous | I totally agree with the thinking of the advocates of this move. Keep politics to where it belongs and scholarly pursuits on its own. They have separate roles to play in society. |
| 221 | John Boli | The Bush administration has done great damage to scholarly inquiry through its politicization of scienctific research. Associating a G W Bush library with any university is inappropriate at best. |
| 222 | Eduard Jordaan | Yet another effort by Bush to fuse what should be kept separate. |
| 223 | Graham Stanton | I am a academic and a UK resident. President Bush's policies on Israel / Palestine and on the environment are anathema to nearly all academics in the UK and detrimental to the 'health' of our planet. |
| 224 | Revd Dr Michael Piret, Dean of Divinity, Magdalen College, Oxford, UK | More serious even than the point of principle regarding a partisan institute (of any kind) are the damages done to global security and to American integrity by this terrible administration. |
| 225 | Margaret A. McKean | I believe Duke made the right decision with the Nixon library, and I hope SMU can make the same decision with the Bush library. The national archives will provide a suitable research facility for presidential papers, so for a university to provide such a hope inevitably becomes an endorsement not of the idea of research but specifically of that president and his politics. |
| 226 | P. Yvette Cook | The presence of this institute would weigh negatively in a decision whether to consider an academic position at SMU. |
| 227 | Rachael Joo | Let us think about questions of social justice and peace. Security begins with equality, respect, and love. |
| 228 | Renee sentilles | |
| 229 | David Karr | Surely Regent University would be a more appropriate choice... |
| 230 | Athena Vrettos | Associate Professor of English
Case Western Reserve University |
| 231 | Shomu Banerjee | |
| 232 | Lori Wright | Associate Professor,
Texas A&M University |
| 233 | Malachi Haim Hacohen | Associate Professor of History, Political Science and Religion and Bass Fellow
Duke University |
| 234 | Tony Ro, PhD | I am an Associate Professor at another private university (Rice University) in Texas and strongly object to imposing such an institute on any campus. |
| 235 | Anonymous | |
| 236 | Dr. Brad Liebl | |
| 237 | Stanley Black, University of North Carolina | |
| 238 | Johan Booth | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
Politically partisan institutions and academia should not mix. |
| 239 | Jose A. Tapia | |
| 240 | Loretta Pyles | |
| 241 | Tahir Naqvi | Political partisanship is not bad thing. However, it should be pursued by students, not by academic institutions. |
| 242 | melvin ayogu | please uphold non-partisanship within the formal structure of higher education by not locating the institute within smu campus. |
| 243 | Lynne Rose, LMSW, ACSW | |
| 244 | Anthony C. Yu | I fully endorse and support the petition submitted by faculty colleagues at SMU to their President and Trustees to turn down the institute that George W. Bush seeks to include in his Presidential Library complex on SMU campus. The stated aim of this institute is against everything we cherish as academic freedom of a free people. |
| 245 | Angelika Bammer | I both received a graduate degree (MA in French) from SMU and taught there as a graduate instructor. I am now a professor of humanities at Emory University. Both professionally and personally, I would be offended by an institution I was affiliated with adopting a partisan position on ANY issue. |
| 246 | Casey Love | |
| 247 | Eileen Ihrig | |
| 248 | Yvonne Wasilewski | |
| 249 | Barry Burden | |
| 250 | Thomas Bender, New York University | |