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Texas A&M is having some issues

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by gator_lawyer, Aug 3, 2023.

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  1. Aug 3, 2023 #1
    gator_lawyer

    gator_lawyer VIP Member

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    There's a whole lot of problematic stuff happening at TAMU right now. Feels a bit like Florida. First, the school planned to hire an alum who is a professor at UT to lead their journalism program. Politics blew it up, and now they're paying her $1 million to stay at Texas.
    Texas A&M recruited a UT professor to revive its journalism program, then backtracked after “DEI hysteria”
    Top Texas A&M officials were involved in botched recruiting of journalism professor, who will receive $1 million settlement

    These texts from their regents are damning and show that all these right-wing accusations of "indoctrination" are them projecting:
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    And then they suspended a professor because she criticized the Lt. Governor's policy on opioids. A right-wing politician's daughter was in the class, who told her mom who told Dan Patrick (Texas Lt. Gov) who then called the Chancellor of the university.
    Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture

    And due to the first scandal, TAMU's president resigned:
    Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor

    This is why academic freedom and keeping political hacks away from our universities are so important.
     
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  2. Aug 3, 2023 #2
    gatordavisl

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    That Jay Graham dude is a complete dip shit. Who puts their political bias in a text message regarding an academic hire?
     
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  3. Aug 3, 2023 #3
    G8tas

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    I don't think anyone is surprised. Now shows us the Ronnie D text messages
     
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  4. Aug 3, 2023 #4
    l_boy

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    I think A&M has always had a more conservative cultural slant, especially compared to UT.
     
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  5. Aug 3, 2023 #5
    uftaipan

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    Dammit. I was hoping this was going to be a thread about the imminent collapse of their football team and disgrace of their rapist-enabling, motor-mouth head coach.
     
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  6. Aug 3, 2023 #6
    gator_lawyer

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    In due time.
     
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  7. Aug 3, 2023 #7
    rivergator

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    Yes, if we can just train partisan journalists ...:cool:

    I remember looking at an FSU message board maybe 20 years ago and they were convinced the only reason the Noles were getting so much bad press was because UF had a journalism school and they didn't. They were also convinced that if they had a journalism school, it would send out legions of sportswriters who would write good stuff about the Noles and bad stuff about the Gators.
     
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  8. Aug 4, 2023 #8
    mutz87

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    When you're losing bad in the battle of ideas and can't handle what data and science show, tear it all down!
     
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  9. Aug 4, 2023 #9
    l_boy

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    That’s the type of stuff my alter ego “Nole-boy” would have posted on Whore-chant - that’s probably been 15 years ago. Among Noleboys chief assertions, often typed out in all caps:

    - negative nole posters (neganoles) were scaring away recruits
    - FSU coaches should always be Bowdens
    - Chris Rix was arguably the best Nole QB of all time

    Somehow I got away with that in intermittent drive bys until I finally got banned.
     
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  10. Aug 4, 2023 #10
    gator_lawyer

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    I believe Wyatt Sexton is the best of all time. The man was God.
     
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  11. Aug 4, 2023 #11
    G8tas

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    I had classes in high school with him. I felt bad when I heard what happened to him
     
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  12. Aug 4, 2023 #12
    l_boy

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    Dan Kendra should get an honorable mention for his devotion to science.
     
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    orangeblue_coop

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    And they have the nerve to cry about libs indoctrinating the education system. Everything that contingent does/says is projection.
     
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  14. Aug 4, 2023 #14
    gator_lawyer

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    Yeah, it must have been heartbreaking to hear that he voluntarily went to Florida State. ;)
     
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  15. Aug 4, 2023 #15
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    they are a very transparent bunch due to their lack of self awareness..
     
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  16. Aug 4, 2023 #16
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    Drugs are bad.
     
  17. Aug 4, 2023 #17
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  18. Aug 4, 2023 #18
    GatorRade

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    Right here
    You know, I actually sympathize with their view on universities being dominated by liberals, as confirmed by many studies. I also even agree with them that this is not an ideal setup for truth seeking.

    However, I cannot agree that therefore government needs to step in to rectify this problem. I think one of the issues is that many people have a sort of conspiracy view of how we arrived at our current institutions, rather than an evolutionary view. Here, many conservatives seem to believe liberals got together long ago with some 50 year plan to conscientiously take over the educational system. Of course, like with the case of elementary school teachers being overwhelming female, there is no such conspiracy to be found here.

    As a result of all of this, using government action to introduce more conservatives to higher education ends up being an example of the very conspiracy that they believed they were rectifying.
     
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  19. Aug 4, 2023 #19
    wgbgator

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    It was The Rooster, whatever that guys name was
     
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  20. Aug 4, 2023 #20
    wgbgator

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    Going to Bonnaroo is always a mistake
     
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