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  1. 1 minute ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Well, no. But you’ll be branded as someone who lacks the perspective to speak on the issue unless you’re an African American athlete at The University of Texas. And that’s fair.

    I cannot argue with another persons feelings. That being said should not my feelings around a song and a university matter as well?
     

    Growing up with Texas football brought joy and also a lot of heartache. My old man would always have us stay to the end to sing the eyes. As I kid I remember singing the song with tears in my eyes when PSU beat us bad in the Fiesta or when we lost to Notre Dame at home in 90 something. Don’t get me started on some of those OU games. 
     

    No matter the outcome of the game you stood and sang the song and I felt proud even if we were beaten. Because we had that song, and we got to sing it, and the other team did not. 
     

    So I am sorry that I don’t want to see the song removed just like that. I could care less what a building is called on campus. But the eyes, damn, that would be tough.  
     

    Hopefully there is a dialogue to get the feelings out and we can figure out how to move forward with The Eyes of Texas. 

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  2. I was in student government from 09 to 11. We debated a lot of stupid shit and we wrote some legit meaningless letters on Student Government letterhead.
     

    The student government was made up of a diverse group of students from many different backgrounds and we ended every meeting with the Eyes. Perhaps it was an issue back then but I was unaware. 
     

    A quick google shows in 2018 it was debated whether to sing the song after government meetings. 
     

     

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  3. 11 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Hate to break it to you, but case counts have risen dramatically over the last week or so here in Texas. Yesterday, we recorded our highest one-day count of new infections throughout this entire ordeal. The data also seem to show early indications that deaths might be picking back up too. So take that for what it's worth.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/texas-coronavirus-cases.html

    You can't just look at daily positives. You need to also look at the number of tests being done as well. Also for some reason Texas mixes PCR and antibody tests results together which confuses the picture of how many new cases Texas really has. It seems NYT's might be taking the antibody number out of their results as they show 1,578 new cases vs 3,281 on the tableau site for 5/31.

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    https://public.tableau.com/profile/peter.james.walker#!/vizhome/COVID-19SeeYourState/YourStateKeys

     

    edit: @bschoolprof beat me to it. 

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  4. 11 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    It’s where the jobs, business industries etc. are. It’s the same reason DFW is overrun with out of staters. And it’s not because they dreamed of the Metroplex. 

    Go to Teterboro, White Plains, Morristown, Philly NorthEast, Martin State, Dulles and probably a few others I’ve neglected on Friday afternoon and you’ll find most of the super wealthy people you think love the NE so are getting the fuck out of the NE on the nearest available private jet. 

    Usually to that bastion of culture and fine living known as Florida. 

    Personally it’s Hooks for me and sadly it is usually to Florida. The economics of flying there vs WY is better (time and $$$). 
     

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  5. 3 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Was sitting by my window wondering why their was a helicoptor hovering outside.  Protest marching up 1st Avenue.  All very peaceful.  NYPD walking with them.  No issues that I could see.

     

     

     

    The only issue I see (from a week and half ago) is they are outside. 

  6. 5 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    And now for Goyard. I do business with them regularly, both here and in Paris. They were running their distance acquisition out of this store. Items had been packed to.ship to customer. Those empty ripped boxes were found strewn all over E 63rd between the store and Central Park.



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    i totally get that annie murphy GIF by Schitt's Creek

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