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  • Photo: SMU band members kneel while playing anthem

    09/24/2016 8:17:08 AM PDT · by rey · 34 replies
    Campus Sports ^ | 24 Sept 2016 | Michael Napoles
    Five members of the Southern Methodist University band took a knee while playing the national anthem prior to their game against Texas Christian University. There were also a select number of students in the student section who joined in the protests. “I feel like coming from an African American background — I grew up in Detroit, Michigan, which is a predominantly black city — that I get tired of seeing my black brothers and sisters dying from injustices and unjustified reasons,” one student, Coda Boyce, told the Dallas Morning News. “I’m not against all police officers, I’m not saying all...
  • Bush Library for Southern Methodist University (Leftist Faculty fight to keep School from hosting)

    03/10/2008 5:09:44 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies · 473+ views
    Students for Academic Freedom ^ | March 2008 | Mark D. Tooley
    Leftist faculty and clergy have waged a long, sometimes nasty battle to keep Southern Methodist (SMU) University in Dallas from hosting the Bush Library. They have insisted that the library will tie SMU to the Bush Administration’s supposedly sinister policies of preemptive war, “torture,” uncontrolled Global Warming, and puritanical repression. But SMU’s board of trustees has finally voted unanimously in favor of the library. Diehard opponents vow to fight on. “This fight is not over,” declared an angry Rev. Andrew Weaver to the United Methodist News Service. Weaver is an ordained United Methodist minister and New York City psychologist who...