Changes made on Campus but the Eyes of Texas stays

A better question is why people today don't feel that applying just enough moral decency to be anti-racist matters. The "where does this stop?" mantra was the same exact one for those who jeered the Brown and Sweatt SC decisions all those years ago.

There is no "stop." The building still exists and will the university will continue to be first-rate for teaching STEM and other areas.
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By this logic, the impossible quest for fairness continues until we live in a communist hellhole. When that happens, UT will cease to be "first-rate". Institutions, like statues, only continue to exist as long as they have significant public support, especially from men like George Littlefield. Everything that is built, whether it is a statue, university or government eventually ceases to exist. The question is, how long we can prolong the existence of good universities and governments? An impossible quest for social justice diminishes public support and shortens the lifespan of both.
 
The real question is WHY should we prolong support to universities? They are teaching young people to be socialists and marxists. I say defund them and remove tax exempt status. They are teaching citizens to hate their country.
 
Htown77 said:
By this logic, the impossible quest for fairness continues until we live in a communist hellhole. When that happens, UT will cease to be "first-rate". Institutions, like statues, only continue to exist as long as they have significant public support, especially from men like George Littlefield. Everything that is built, whether it is a statue, university or government eventually ceases to exist. The question is, how long we can prolong the existence of good universities and governments? An impossible quest for social justice diminishes public support and shortens the lifespan of both.[/QUOTE
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Htown77 said:
By this logic, the impossible quest for fairness continues until we live in a communist hellhole. When that happens, UT will cease to be "first-rate". Institutions, like statues, only continue to exist as long as they have significant public support, especially from men like George Littlefield. Everything that is built, whether it is a statue, university or government eventually ceases to exist. The question is, how long we can prolong the existence of good universities and governments? An impossible quest for social justice diminishes public support and shortens the lifespan of both.
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If the continuation of college sports is contingent upon no fear of risk to human health and satisfying the demands of those who claim to be oppressed we should just throw in the towel and be done with it.
 
The Unbundling of Harvard Has Begun

This is about “higher education” in general, not just Harvard

The Unbundling of Harvard Has Begun

A few interesting bits from the article:

~ More students are reconsidering the value of higher education than ever before

~ The abundance of information on the internet has been eroding the value of higher education for some time — i.e., information asymmetry is no longer an institutional advantage

~ The cost of tuition has been rising for years, but the value hasn’t

~ Traditional higher education (as well as commerce and politics) is built on information scarcity. You pay to get access to information in universities that is impossible to get elsewhere.

~ Thanks to the internet, we now have information abundance, which means you can now access any information you want for free

~ This dramatically erodes the business model for higher education, particularly for mid and low-tier institutions that don’t have a strong brands

~ We’ve entered a digital, two-way, information-rich world where millions of people can produce and distribute content at scale. We need to recalibrate our collective compass.

~ If I trust you and you recommend someone as the best person you have worked with, that means more to me than a prestigious degree

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For example, when I was a student, the McCombs School of Business was just the BEB, short for Business and Economics Building and the Graduate School of Business.
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The GSB was the addition built on the back of the BEB while I was there, it was completed before I graduated in 1986. Across the street from the GSB, and connected by an elevated crosswalk, was the UTC, for University Teaching Center. Are they all part of the Red McCombs complex now? I just call em BEB, GSB and UTC and always will I expect.
 
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Can we name the bathrooms at DKR “Strong Rooms?”
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I think a single stall would be more appropriate: the Strong $h!tter.

Actually I expect the next round of negotiations to involve a statue of Strong. He was the first black head football coach.
 
Re: The value of an education

I'm a CPA and it's my feeling that the universities should provide a 2-year degree program. One year would be the 30 core hours and the other year would be positioning of pre-requisites along with maybe some writing skills and finance. PERIOD.

As was said, if you want to know history then look it up.

In this two-year program, you will emerge with very marketable skills, HALF THE LOAN AMOUNT and an earlier start to pay that thing off.
 
Earl said something wise: "Put our money where our mouth is and put our mouth where our heart is."

I agree.

But in the end, change came because the players said, "OR ELSE."

That's not the heart.
 
Now to get really controversial, just a question:

Assuming that they ever play again at DKR, do you cheer just as loudly when the ring leaders, Overshown, Sterns or Thompson make a play as you do when someone that didn’t take a leadership role in the extortion effort makes a play?

Like I said, controversial. While I do like what came down, I do not like how it came down.

Then there’s their enabling coach...
 
Given the nature of the sport and of the general fan I do not see any demonstrable protest by the fans - unless - a player makes some visual demonstration that singles them out and their political persuasion. Then, if that happens, all bets are off.
 
I will cheer for the team, for the players on the team and for the coaches that coach them.

I am a fan and supporter of the Texas Longhorns.

It is a choice.

Hook'em Horns!
 
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Re: The value of an education

I'm a CPA and it's my feeling that the universities should provide a 2-year degree program. One year would be the 30 core hours and the other year would be positioning of pre-requisites along with maybe some writing skills and finance. PERIOD.

As was said, if you want to know history then look it up.

In this two-year program, you will emerge with very marketable skills, HALF THE LOAN AMOUNT and an earlier start to pay that thing off.
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And move it down to the high school with a vocational prep plan with early entry into the job market the last year of the curriculum. This should be the degree plan for the majority of our current high school students.
 
Overshown had said he would sit out unless he got his way
He seems over it now
But he did retweet Juwan Mitchell's about The Eyes of Texas

 
In the end, we cheer for the uniforms, not the players. If anyone on the team makes a play, I will cheer FOR THE TEAM, not just for that guy. It's always been that way - I have never cheered for one or two guys more than any others. I am there to support Texas and the Longhorn team, past present and future. If these guys think I give a rats *** about them as individuals beyond their representation of my team, then they are way overestimating their worth to me as a fan. I sure don't expect them to care about me as an individual. They don't know me and I don't know them. There is nothing wrong with that relationship IMO.
 
He spoke pretty clearly as to what he and his family beleive and what they believed to be in the best interest of the University of Texas. While many have felt Jamail to have been heavy handed in some of his contributions over the decades, we never seemed to have any problem depositing the check.

I do not believe that anyone will regret slapping Earl and Ricky's names on that field. And anyone who has a problem with the timing, might want to do some serious self reflection.

:texasflag::cowrose:
 
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Maybe the asshat can explain why the opposition to Trump doesn’t support charter schools for poor black families? Or why Trump supported prison reform and additional funding to HBCU’s. Or limiting low-skilled Illegal immigration to improve hourly pay for American citizens?
 
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