SMU Faculty Members Oppose Bush Library

[sugapablo]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_LIBRARY?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=home.htm

DALLAS (AP) -- Negotiations to build George W. Bush's presidential library at Southern Methodist University have divided the campus, pitting the administration and some alumni against members of the liberal-leaning faculty who say the project would be an embarrassment to the school.

Some professors have complained that the combined library, museum and think tank would celebrate a presidency that unnecessarily took the country into a war.

The fear is that the library "will continue to espouse the philosophy and practice of the Bush administration, which has seriously divided our nation and has brought the ire of other countries," said William McElvaney, a retired professor at SMU's theology school and co-author a November opinion piece in the campus newspaper titled "The George W. Bush Library: Asset or Albatross?"

SMU emerged as the front-runner in the competition last month when the library site selection committee said it was entering further discussions with the 11,000-student, private university in one of Dallas's wealthiest neighborhoods. The project will be financed with a private fund drive aimed at raising at least $200 million.

:rofl:

[VegasWolf]

1. Bush, the new Rodney Dangerfield! nt

[NEOBuckeye]

2. Ironic how "Library" and "Think Tank" both suggest what Bush has never done

...as President. Read or think.

[VegasWolf]

I know of a garbage fill that MIGHT take the Bush lubrarry! nt

[billybob537]

3. Wow I'd be more worried

that it would be the #1 terraist target in the world.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. THERE WILL BE NOTHING FOR THE LIBRARY TO HOUSE

BY THE TIME HE LEAVES, EVERYTHING HE HAS TOUCHED WILL BE CLASSIFIED.
:nopity: :argh: :yoiks:

[tanyev]

7. You still need a great big secure vault to store them in.

Bush Library = 60% vault, 10% museum, 30% tacky gift shop.


Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[ToolTex]

5. Paraguay would be a better place for the "Dubya Papers Dump".

[etherealtruth]

6. "...who say the project would be an embarrassment to the school"

Quite true

[Hieronymus]

8. I heard about SMU's problems with Bush's library and ..

I think it's fabulous that they don't want it.:bounce: