Bwahahahahaha! Bob Cull: “The Board of Regents chose not to seek student opinion before scheduling a Thursday meeting to consider honoring Gov. Rick Perry by renaming the Academic Building after him. If they had, here’s a sampling of the voices they would have found in opposition: More than 330 comments on The Battalion‘s Facebook page, a rapid-fire Student Senate resolution and a petition with more than 7,000 signatures and counting. All this in less than two days during finals week, the busiest time of the year for many students. More often than not, comments have mirrored this one: Perry might deserve campus recognition, but give him something — anything — other than the Academic Building. As the editorial notes, it is rare for conversations on social media to agree on anything — but this subject is apparently an exception. The response was overwhelmingly against renaming the building for Perry. The agreement was even more telling in that the student body of A&M is famously conservative politically, and even though Perry is a staunch conservative they do not feel that it is right to name a building dedicated to academics after a man for whom academics was clearly not a priority.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:23:57 +0000
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