Posted on 05/05/2005 4:57:02 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
We need an organized TTU ping list. I had to use google to scrounge for what I could find.
Smart and academics should never be used in the same sentence when you are talking about universities. That is oxymoronic (a new Bushism by me) speak.
Trying to become the State's third 'flagship' University....
Yes, you should be keeper of the ping list........ I'll see if I have any names written down....
Good one.......lol
Try these: TexasNative2000, StrictTime,
These knuckleheads have no clue about the role of the university in that region of the state. Nor do they have any idea about the value we alumni place on the unique traditions of the university.
Next, we'll be giving in to the animal rights crowd by excluding all mentions of The Matador as being inhumane towards bulls. . . . .
you're on it. what about our politically incorrect "guns up". next, they'll make the students stop calling the big 12-ft seal on broadway "the cookie" and make them start calling it "the tortilla". wait.....they didn't like it when we honored tortillas and the area's Spanish Conquistador heritage during football games either....I guess Spanish Conquistadors are pretty politically incorrect too, huh?
Can you imagine the outrage if they turned the Seal into an oreo again? Blatantly racist....... or perhaps just a bunch of kids thinking the Seal looked like a HUGE cookie? lol
From the point of view of those who instigated the "change", that's just a pair of intersecting perpendicular lines. Where the Latin cross is easily identified as a Christian symbol, the *Greek* cross (four equal length arms) is not, at least in Texas.
What's the oreo story?
Back in "my day", lol, someone covered the Seal with a dark substance, white in the middle, and made it resemble an Oreo,........there is a picture in one of my annuals - it was actually very realistic looking..........lol
Not my pastor. He is a liberal who woudl hold hands with Jimmy Carter and shell peanuts with him.
Really, I work in the cotton industry. The ones that are upset are us and those of us who if not for the cotton industry would not have been able to put our children through Texas Tech.
I never thought of cotton as a cross in any form. But I think the double T has been said to look like a cross.
The problem is Smith. He is a liberal who wants nothing more than to change Texas Tech into his northern roots. I can not stand him or his wife. I want him gone. I was really wishing he would have left after the salad incident. He was as much to blame as Coach was on that one.
Aug. 8, 2007
Details at >>>>>
http://www.texastech.edu/news/CurrentNews/display_article.php?id=1466
How long are we stuck with him, do you know?
you can add me to the TT ping
I think he had a 5 year contract a couple years ago. I am not sure.
dang.. I knew he would not be going anywhere anytime soon. There was rumors a while back about him applying for a job up North.. where he had come from. Maybe he will leave and goooooooo back to his own kind.
Oh great......thanks.
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