Friday, January 26, 2007
SMU profs weigh in on Bush library
DALLAS — Southern Methodist University professors are jumping into the Bush-presidential-library debate with a petition calling for a faculty vote on the Bush Institute, a public policy institute that would be part of the library complex.
The petition, posted by WFAA, expresses concern over the "acceptability" of the Bush Institute, "a partisan think-tank aimed at advancing issues of concern to President Bush" that "has attracted faculty scrutiny and national press attention."
According to petition organizer and anthropology professor David Freidel, 170 of SMU's 609 full-time faculty have signed the petition in the last week. It asks that SMU's Faculty Senate hold a referendum on whether the institute should be separate from SMU or whether it should have university oversight.
The vote would be nonbinding, but is a way for the faculty to get involved in the process before SMU sets the library plan in stone.
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Mike Orren, says:
Colbert weighed in last night:
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