Plans for Bush library stir Texas-size tempest

The Chicago Tribune says the possible advent of the Bush library — and especially an ideological think tank planned as part of it — has split the SMU faculty, feeding a debate that simmers beneath the serenity of the leafy campus. At an institution dedicated to scholarly achievement and academic freedom, many fear the work of the Bush Institute would forever associate SMU with a right-wing political agenda.

“I’m concerned that we’re going to be judged by the things this institute does,” Johnson said. “These guys are so divisive, so unpopular, it seems to me really dangerous to go for an arrangement that could turn the face of your university over to them without any controls over them.”

April 9, 2007 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. mdoneil says:
    April 10, 2007 at 10:18 am

    Again
    No one that matters cares what these academics think. They are not paying for it so no one really cares what they think.

    I think the Clinton library was a good idea because it makes the study of the executive branch of government during that period of our nation’s history. I think Clinton was a bozo, but I certainly don’t oppose a library collecting works from and about his administration.

    One would think those who disagree with President Bush would be pleased with access to and an institute for the study of those years in our nation’s history too.

    It will exist, it is simply a matter of where. I would think that any University would be pleased to have it. Does one have to agree with a library’s collection or subject matter to find it useful? I don’t think so.

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