Library to NYT: You’re Not Wanted Here Anymore! : Lone Star Times

Library to NYT: You’re Not Wanted Here Anymore!

by The Pine Blogger · 06/30/2006 11:25 am

After Baylor University allegedly refused tenure to an assistant professor because he was a "tad" too conservative, I had been left without a "right-wing nutjob" Texas university for my children. I may have found the place–University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.

In a move that will have every liberal in America screaming "censure," a dean of library services has slammed the mailbox door in the face of the New York Times.

The dean of library services at the University of the Incarnate Word has canceled the library’s subscription to the New York Times to protest articles exposing a secret government program that monitors international financial transactions in the hunt for terrorists.

"Since no one elected the New York Times to determine national security policy, the only action I know to register protest for their irresponsible action (treason?) is to withdraw support of their operations by canceling our subscription as many others are doing," Mendell D. Morgan Jr. wrote Wednesday in an e-mail to library staffers. "If enough do, perhaps they will get the point."

- Read the San Antonio Express News for more.

Dean Morgan — I salute you!

[Cross-posted at The Pine Blog]

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7 Responses to “Library to NYT: You’re Not Wanted Here Anymore!”

TXAggie87 on June 30th, 2006 at 11:42 am

Pine Blogger,

I’m a native of S.A. - Dean Morgan may be conservative. UIW is middle of the road at best. Most of their profs are typical academicians . . . libs through and through. The UIW admin hasn’t commented one way or the other on this, other than to throw out the “we support freedom of speech” dogma. I suspect that Dean Morgan is probably tenured and it would be difficult for them to do much, if anything to him.
johnny833 on June 30th, 2006 at 2:11 pm

If someone applies enough pressure and he has to put it back on the shelves, I suggest he file it under Fiction or in the round file as it arrives….just for future reference.
tedtam on June 30th, 2006 at 2:35 pm

If someone is looking for a conservative university, try A&M. While I’m not happy with the arrival of the Greeks on campus and some other changes, they are still the bastion of conservatism in Texas. It is also where my daughter wants to go. WHOOOOP!
shannon on June 30th, 2006 at 2:49 pm

Even though my blood runs orange, if I had one headed for college and it had to be a state school in Texas….I would encourage her to go to A&M.
SimpleSimon on July 1st, 2006 at 12:42 pm

I had liberal professors when I went to college, although most of them were in the English, History, and Government Departments. The State of Texas did require me to endure some of these professors and I was always thankful at the end of the course to walk out with my 3.0 hours of credit, but I was an engineering major.

Engineering and Science majors have bigger worries than a few old strident liberal professors. I would point out that the University is supposed to present you with a wide variety of viewpoints and the intelligent mind can determine the “truth”. Listening to a single point of view, whether it is liberal or conservative, is not an education. It is brainwashing!

Ask yourself, Have I ever latched onto an idea or principal learned in college or a university and then discarded it when the reality of life contridicted those teachings? If you say yes, then I would say you got your moneys worth at college. You learned how to think for yourself.

Simple
40inarow on July 3rd, 2006 at 2:10 pm

I knew how to think for myself before I went to college.

If someone goes to college hoping that the University will teach them how to think, they will be lost.

That said, my son will gradute from Texas A&M this Ausgust with honors. We were very pleased with his experience at Texas A&M.
40inarow on July 3rd, 2006 at 2:11 pm

Sorry for the misspelled word “graduate.”