A Message from President Gregory L. Fenves - University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin ^ | November 14, 2016 | Gregory L. Fenves

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As a parent of a UT student, I find Fenves' email to be very disturbing and an obvious partisan attack, beneath the dignity of someone holding a professional office at a profound and honorable university like The University of Texas at Austin.

It is most disturbing that Mr. Fenves would take the opportunity to voice his veiled distain for president-elect Trump in this venue and in his capacity as President of UT. He is using a bully-pulpit to indoctrinate our young people in a very dishonest format.

The only MSM documented attacks have been on Trump supporters.

Mr. Fenves states: "As a rule, the president of UT should never comment on candidates or election results. As a state institution, we must stay out of politics....but..."

He should be ashamed of himself!

[tgusa]

I have loved Texas since being stationed there in the ‘70s. Austin was always a burr under my saddle.

[Wolfie]

It was only a surprise because the wishful-thinking media kept telling you Clinton was a lock. Well, dummies, they were lying to you.

[who knows what evil?]

...profound and honorable university like The University of Texas at Austin.

There is THE problem...there is NOTHING profound and honorable about any university or college that behaves in such a fashion. The education system in this country needs to be overhauled, and the sooner; the better. Another Freeper suggested that we start calling a 'college education' what it has truly become...a 'college indoctrination'.

[Gamecock]

we will do everything we can as a university to support any members of the UT community who feel they are being targeted.

Doesn't matter if they are being targeted or not, all they have to do is feel they are being targeted.

[Paladin2]

The Campus Climate Response team ?

[Paladin2]

Now The Mellenial Day Care Center of Texas.

[tomkat]

Strikes me as 721 words of Pussyspeak.

[odawg]

“...to host a wall at the Student Activity Center on which community members can share their emotions by posting notes.”

Just goes to show how stupid this person is. The “wall” will quickly devolve to gutter filth and have to be discontinued. I give it two days, at the most.

If these academics had any intelligence or leadership ability at all, they would patiently instruct the delicate snowflakes that a civilized society has to respect the results of a Constitutionally mandated and legally organized and performed election. Anything less is mob rule and anarchy. You don’t always get what you want.

[ptsal]

Drivel for the melting snowflakes.

The closing line should have been something that encouraged the students and their parents to payback their student loans.

[odawg]

Thanks for a good laugh. But is true.

[Guenevere]

Very well stated.

I hope you will send your response to Mr. Fenves and the University and the local newspapers.

However you have stated you have a student there and your protective instinct would kick in......Those folks can be vindictive and downright dangerous.

I too have a grown child in Austin and sadly find him a little ‘lost in Babylon’ right now.
He has lived there many years and the liberal mindset crept up on him...( & his wife)
Should be an interesting Christmas get together.

Wishing you the very best for your child!!!!

[lonestar]

I haven’t heard of any rioting in College Station.

[Moonman62]

Some heard the rhetoric of the campaign and fear they could be targeted because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation.

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What they heard was the rhetoric and bias of the corrupt Old Media.

[T-Bone Texan]

"...Some heard the rhetoric of the campaign and fear they could be targeted because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation..."

Irrational fear on a snowflake's part does not merit concern on my part.

Disgusting behavior by the top guy. He should be ashamed, and unemployed.

[Huskrrrr]

This statement is pretty much verbatim the messages I received from the two colleges I teach at. I took the message to mean “if you voted for Trump, keep your racist mouth shut.”

[polymuser]

“While many are celebrating the outcome, others are profoundly disturbed by it. Some heard the rhetoric of the campaign and fear they could be targeted because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation.”

A very great many good Americans are celebrating.

Everyone heard media rhetoric, a coordinated echo chamber against Trump. Sadly, most students are unaware they are being propagandized.

Mr. Fenves is yet another koolaid-drinking Marxist-socialist educator. He and his unAmerican agenda are vulnerable and under attack, not his students, and he knows it. Truly a low-life (though highly educated).

[VideoPaul]

I got a remarkably similar letter from the University I’m getting my Master’s Degre at. “Support for students affected by the election” or words very similar.

I can find nothing about “support for students affected” by the election of O-vomit. Campus is in Chicago.

I just keep my head down, keep the unbroken Series of “A”s on the transcripts and watch the snowflakes weep into their hands.

[cymbeline]

Nothing in his message about educating students in engineering, medicine, languages, agriculture, literature, etc. That’s why I sent my kids to college.

[Don Corleone]

Now The Millennial Day Care Center of Texas.

Are the Texas parents getting their $40,000-$60,000 tuition worth? Fire the biased clowns and get back to real University level education. Fifty years of this crapola is more than enough.