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Faculty meeting focuses on Bush Institute

Abstract:
The third faculty meeting in as many weeks about the George W. Bush Presidential Library was filled with tough, respectful questions for SMU President R. Gerald Turner.

That's according to the faculty members who streamed out of the Hughes-Trigg Ballroom Wednesday afternoon following a nearly two-hour meeting that was an open discussion about the controversial project....

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Dave Winnipeg

posted 2/01/07 @ 8:50 AM CST

Bush is the biggest moron to ever become leader of a democratic country. It would be a huge disgrace to be the academic institution to boast any kind of research forum or library in his name.

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John Hamilton

posted 2/01/07 @ 1:38 PM CST

I spent a couple of summers of my youth in Dallas (read about it here: http://whilewestillhavetime.blogspot.com/2005/08/great-dunk-tank.html), staying with relatives in Highland Park, not far from SMU. I liked Dallas, and was impressed with the university, its buildings, and its traditions. Of course then SMU was a national football power too, and their star running back Billy Gannon (I think) was a lifeguard at the nearby pool.

A few years later President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, giving the city a distinction that few would want. Now SMU is considering the indignity of being the home of the George W. Bush presidential library. It is one thing to go willingly into being a national laughingstock, but the legacy of George W. Bush will be one of criminality, incompetence, negligence and deception. A library in his name will be an irony that Shakespeare would envy. George Bush would appreciate the irony, having read "three Shakespeares" while on vacation. For SMU, the irony may not be such an honor.

John Hamilton
Madison, Wisconsin

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