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Announcement in Daily Campus reports that tomorrow, Friday, SMU will be formally announced as the site for the Bush Presidential Library.

http://www.smudailycampus.com/?reffeatu ... ewsedition

this is a good thing for our university - in 100 years, people will not remember the politics, they'll just know that our university is worthy of a presidential library

Agreed.

(But they'll still remember the DP.)

mr. pony wrote:Agreed.

(But they'll still remember the DP.)

Won't remember WMD but DP

Very true raplh. Welcome to Dallas, library!

We will not be here in 100 years, they will have us.

mr. pony wrote:(But they'll still remember the DP.)

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Love him or hate him, the Clinton library has been a big plus for Little Rock. Having a presidential library on campus is a huge achievement. Congrats to all the hard working SMU folks that made this happen.

Will SMU welcome the Dubya "policy center" to our fair campus without having any control over it? Sounds a little one-sided as far as political philosophy goes, and I think that is dangerous.

jtstang wrote:Will SMU welcome the Dubya "policy center" to our fair campus without having any control over it? Sounds a little one-sided as far as political philosophy goes, and I think that is dangerous.

It'll balance our liberal faculty.

Every school has a liberal faculty. Ours is already balanced by our white-bread conservative rich kid student body....

What is the 'policy center'? I am not familiar with that organization. Is it part of the library? Or is it a separate entity? If there is a Clinton policy center connected to the library, it has been all but invisible. The Clinton library is primarily a public forum for Clinton to brag about his presidency. For scholars, it is a repository of information. There have not been any ‘policy’ forums or pronouncements from the library. And if there has been a policy center at the library, the city of Little Rock certainly has no say in it.

Granted my experiences with presidential libraries is the one about a half mile from my office. I visited it and little else. There may be much more than I am aware so any insight or further clarification would be much appreciated.

jtstang wrote:Every school has a liberal faculty. Ours is already balanced by our white-bread conservative rich kid student body....

Did you ever meet any students from Dedman or Meadows?

ponyte wrote:What is the 'policy center'? I am not familiar with that organization. Is it part of the library? Or is it a separate entity? If there is a Clinton policy center connected to the library, it has been all but invisible. The Clinton library is primarily a public forum for Clinton to brag about his presidency. For scholars, it is a repository of information. There have not been any ‘policy’ forums or pronouncements from the library. And if there has been a policy center at the library, the city of Little Rock certainly has no say in it.

Granted my experiences with presidential libraries is the one about a half mile from my office. I visited it and little else. There may be much more than I am aware so any insight or further clarification would be much appreciated.

Isn't the Clinton School for Continuing Education (or something like that)connected to the Library? I am not sure who attends but the classes are usually "hosted" by some of Clinton's cronies althought they do bring in some balance every now and then. As with you, I am not a Clinton supporter, and I do not pay much heed as to what goes on there, but it is a good asset to the city.

couch 'em wrote:

jtstang wrote:Every school has a liberal faculty. Ours is already balanced by our white-bread conservative rich kid student body....

Did you ever meet any students from Dedman or Meadows?

Of course not.