SMU won't vote on Bush think tank
DALLAS -- Southern Methodist University professors on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a plan to hold a faculty-wide vote on whether the campus should host a partisan think-tank as part of George W. Bush's presidential library.
Faculty Senate President Rhonda Blair said it was defeated because the measure was too narrow, asking professors if they approved or disapproved of the partisan institute, which would report to the Bush Foundation, not SMU. The issue may be discussed again next week, Blair said.
A petition signed by 175 of SMU's 600 professors had called for the vote. Some professors have said the think tank would hurt SMU's reputation because it would further the ideas of the Bush administration.
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Faculty Senate President Rhonda Blair said it was defeated because the measure was too narrow, asking professors if they approved or disapproved of the partisan institute, which would report to the Bush Foundation, not SMU. The issue may be discussed again next week, Blair said.
A petition signed by 175 of SMU's 600 professors had called for the vote. Some professors have said the think tank would hurt SMU's reputation because it would further the ideas of the Bush administration.