University of Texas says Bush’s border fence would ruin mission of campus.
University of Texas says Bush’s border fence would ruin mission of campus.
Recently, the Bush administration announced it would build an additional 670 miles of border fence by the end of the year. But the fence would “slice through” the University of Texas, Brownsville, which borders Mexico, cutting off the school’s golf course from the rest of the campus. The AP reports that school officials are saying the fence would undermine the university’s mission of fostering cooperation with Mexico:
The university — built close to the Rio Grande on land where the United States and Mexico traded cannon blasts during the Mexican-American War 160 years ago — recruits Mexican students, offers government and business classes in English and Spanish and turns out sorely needed bilingual teachers. [...]
“To slice off and fence off the `bi’ part of `binational’ violates the essence of this university,” said university President Juliet V. Garcia, whose office is situated in what was once the thick-walled, tan-brick hospital at Fort Brown, built shortly after the Civil War.
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June 27th, 2008 at 8:09 pmSo… can we keep your golf course then?
June 27th, 2008 at 8:10 pmMaybe Chimpy could put his library on their campus, south of the border.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:16 pm.
How fitting that the Worst gave up golf for America… NO?
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June 27th, 2008 at 8:20 pmGuess there is one more school in Texas that won’t be offered Dubya’s little ego liberry.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:21 pmZooey Says:
NIMBY
Is that an acronym?
June 27th, 2008 at 8:25 pm“Not in My Back Yard”
June 27th, 2008 at 8:26 pmGet in line.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:27 pmOff topic:
It appears some of our soldiers are not impressed with Johnny McTeleprompter. And to think Johnny spends all his time over in Iraq! You’d think our soldiers would be grateful for him. Bah hahahahaha! Our soldiers are smarter than McTeleprompter thinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHLeOkiLnPc
June 27th, 2008 at 8:30 pmupside99 Says:
“Not in My Back Yard”
Thanks…It’s been a long day :)~
June 27th, 2008 at 8:34 pmupside99 Says:
Guess there is one more school in Texas that won’t be offered Dubya’s little ego liberry.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:21 pm Add Karma
And another golf course Georgie can cross off his list after he relocates to his new, to be located Texas fortress. How come I now fear for the federal student financial aid funding for this school?!
June 27th, 2008 at 8:35 pmThanks, upside99. :)
June 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pmFall 1970 –
George W. applies to University of Texas Law School and is rejected.
this is his
revenge on
texas.
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good luck.
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June 27th, 2008 at 10:10 pmYou cannot make this stuff up. Yet another episode of, “I cannot believe this could possibly happen (either).”
June 27th, 2008 at 10:21 pmBuilding the fence will destroy more along the river than just a golf course. Businesses will be forced out. Fishermen and boaters will no longer have access. I’m sure the fence will not stop any illegal entry to the US.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:38 pmThat’s gonna be a helluva chip shot on the 14th green!
June 27th, 2008 at 11:10 pmSomehow I wonder if the good University’s Bilingual Teachers are, by existing, an affront to the English First neocons ?
I wonder if the University giving Mexican’s a leg up and providing cooperation are an affront to ex-Texas gov. Bush.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:16 pmSeems the neocons want to roll the clock back. Say, 160 years.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:42 pmMOONBAT Says:
Building the fence will destroy more along the river than just a golf course. Businesses will be forced out. Fishermen and boaters will no longer have access. I’m sure the fence will not stop any illegal entry to the US.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Everyone just goes up, down and around the fences anyways. A physical fence in this day and age is just a Republican myth that because it’s there that it stops illegal immigration. The loudmouths in NYC, the Beltway and all other points don’t know that the Border Patrol doesn’t sit on the fence beyond civilized areas. The real answer is high tech means of detection, but with this administration and their no contest system of evaluating contracts…. LMMFAO Then again, illegal immigrants here should be afforded a measure of amnesty because tearing apart families simply isn’t right and is “Un-American”.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:54 pmBuild the fence.
McCain will straddle it.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:46 am