Dan doubling down on dumbassery

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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article258543928.html

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19093]

This is disgusting.  Dan Patrick is damned determined to make Texas Universities complete jokes.

 

 

[RDCanecutter 26281]

Dan Patrick's gonna keep those dad-gum carpet-bagging professors from applying for jobs in his Texas.

[Anastasis 23394]

9 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Dan Patrick's gonna keep those dad-gum carpet-bagging professors from applying for jobs in his Texas.

Will stifle recruitment to Texas for sure.  What a fucking dumbass. 

[Blotto 23434]

It wouldn't be just for this reason, but this kind of shit is why I feel my time in Texas is coming to an end. Texas is rapidly becoming the biggest ideological shithole in the country, and that's saying something. A 268,597 mi² Mar-a-Lago. 

Edited February 18, 2022 by Blotto

[Satchel 6908]

Dan Patrick should be monitored to make sure he takes his meds. Mental illness is real and should be taken seriously.

[Brisketexan 104628]

51 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

This is disgusting.  Dan Patrick is damned determined to make Texas Universities complete jokes.

 

 

If you want to kill a state's economic future, passing laws turning its institutions of higher ed into right wing madrassas is a damned good way to do so.

Someday, if we're lucky, maybe UT will rank up there with Liberty University!

[Satchel 6908]

Texans should be pissed that a Maryland transplant is dead set on keeping higher ed in Texas inferior to its California counterpart.

[Blotto 23434]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

If you want to kill a state's economic future, passing laws turning its institutions of higher ed into right wing madrassas is a damned good way to do so.

Someday, if we're lucky, maybe UT will rank up there with Liberty University!

Universities are supposed to be environments that encourage/foster conversation on a wide variety of topics. Just because UT has a class  (HIS 362D Introduction to the Holocaust) on the holocaust doesn't mean UT endorses the holocaust. Stifling academic conversation because it doesnt align with you political parties agenda is fucked up. This state is fucked up. 

[F250 28691]

Texas higher education has been making some considerable strides, particularly the UT System and here comes Dan Patrick from Maryland saying "Hold my beer."

 

[The Original Greaser Bob 2799]

So everyone needs to do a little politicking for Collier over the next few months, no?

[Fletch 5799]

1 hour ago, Blotto said:

It wouldn't be just for this reason, but this kind of shit is why I feel my time in Texas is coming to an end. Texas is rapidly becoming the biggest ideological shithole in the country, and that's saying something. A 268,597 mi² Mar-a-Lago. 

I feel ya dude. I’m sick of this state and what Austin has become. But I’m stayin. Rebuilding my Texas. Sigh….enjoying my Texas. 

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2659]

The stupid and redundant right-wing think tank infiltrating our university isn't enough..... these dicks won't stop destroying everything enlightened until someone stops them

[Beau Vine 54003]

I'm a tenured professor, and I'll say it -- I would have done better without tenure.  Because of salary inversion, I'm the lowest-paid professor in my department, even though I have been there longest.  Tenure drastically cuts job turnover and salaries.  

Without tenure, I probably would have hit the job market as soon as we started hiring new PhDs at higher salaries than mine.  

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

Smeagol weighs in:

 

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2 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

This is disgusting.  Dan Patrick is damned determined to make Texas Universities complete jokes.

That's because he didn't go to one.

[wildcat09 29257]

So uh, who wants to bet that the University of Austin will offer courses about any of the subjects that the State of Texas is soon going to censor?

Nobody?

Bueller?

[RexWilson 1341]

Preaches about school choice then wants to regulate the curriculum if he doesnt agree with your school choice. 🤔

[Satchel 6908]

1 hour ago, F250 said:

Texas higher education has been making some considerable strides, particularly the UT System and here comes Dan Patrick from Maryland saying "Hold my beer."

 

Texas may as well invite schools from across the country to cream skim the best and brightest from the state’s universities.

Edited February 18, 2022 by Satchel

[Gil Bang 25898]

when this happens, the UC system needs to open a recruiting office in Austin, and poach all of the bright young faculty members.

[Nivek 16860]

Republicans = American Taliban

['stache 21774]

3 hours ago, Blotto said:

It wouldn't be just for this reason, but this kind of shit is why I feel my time in Texas is coming to an end. Texas is rapidly becoming the biggest ideological shithole in the country, and that's saying something. A 268,597 mi² Mar-a-Lago. 

I struggle with this on a daily basis living in Oklahoma, and to make it worse, my alternative for years was moving back to Texas, and that's looking like not so good an alternative anymore (not just the politics but the absurd cost of living increases over the last decade in Austin and Dallas where I would probably end up). At least we don't have bounties on abortion doctors, yet at least. We did let yet another death row inmate convulse to death for over 45 minutes by using whatever drug combination was available. Absolute savagery, I don't care what the convict did to earn the sentence. If you guys follow up with this one, I'm sure we'll quickly follow, and I'll probably pull the trigger and gtfo.

Edited February 18, 2022 by 'stache

[Thrawn 538]

I was born and raised in Oklahoma and I currently live in Florida. So, you know, I don't look down on anyone. Although, even I am starting to look at Texas a little less favorably.

[Satchel 6908]

It really is depressing when one considers that millions of Patrick’s supporters have no idea what tenure is:

At the conference, Patrick said he will be working on a bill to ban tenure for all new professor hires and allow universities to revoke tenure for professors who teach critical race theory, which he said should be grounds for firing.

According to Lt. Gov. Patrick, who is currently amid a campaign for reelection, the Texas Legislature has the ability to determine curriculums in school because they are elected by the people.

Patrick argued that the teaching of critical race theory suggests that white people are racist and that people of color are victims. He added that he stood with Black people during the time of segregation and that Americans should remember those times, but he believes critical race theory divides people and teaches them that they are either racist or a victim, which he says is inaccurate.

[gmr548 16516]

Can't wait to explain to employers that I went to UT before it was a private religious school.

[Satchel 6908]

Surely, UT faculty can’t be this naive:

“I will not stand by and let looney Marxist UT professors poison the minds of young students with Critical Race Theory,” Patrick wrote on the social media platform Twitter. “We banned it in publicly funded K-12 and we will ban it in publicly funded higher ed. That’s why we created the Liberty Institute at UT.”

…Either the lieutenant governor is just speaking out of school, or he’s reinforcing the very narrative that has provoked individual concerns last fall,” Texas law professor Steve Vladeck told The Texas Tribune. “It’s incumbent upon the university to provide a full-throated update and … explain to faculty members, to whom assurances were made in September, why the lieutenant governor is wrong. Or if he isn’t, why that attitude is acceptable?”

Domino Perez, the president of UT-Austin’s Faculty Council, also said the lieutenant governor’s tweet contradicted what faculty members have been told about the new center.

“We were told that the idea for the institute originated with faculty on campus,” she told The Texas Tribune.

[F250 28691]

I was thinking this UT think tank would be like Hoover at Stanford and have legitimate academics but no we will definitely end up with a Creation museum with guest speakers Nailin Palin.

 

[wildcat09 29257]

6 minutes ago, F250 said:

I was thinking this UT think tank would be like Hoover at Stanford and have legitimate academics but no we will definitely end up with a Creation museum with guest speakers Nailin Palin.

 

The Hoover Institute doesn't really have any legitimate academics either. Just people who pretend to be.

['stache 21774]

51 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Surely, UT faculty can’t be this naive:

“I will not stand by and let looney Marxist UT professors poison the minds of young students with Critical Race Theory,” Patrick wrote on the social media platform Twitter. “We banned it in publicly funded K-12 and we will ban it in publicly funded higher ed. That’s why we created the Liberty Institute at UT.”

…Either the lieutenant governor is just speaking out of school, or he’s reinforcing the very narrative that has provoked individual concerns last fall,” Texas law professor Steve Vladeck told The Texas Tribune. “It’s incumbent upon the university to provide a full-throated update and … explain to faculty members, to whom assurances were made in September, why the lieutenant governor is wrong. Or if he isn’t, why that attitude is acceptable?”

Domino Perez, the president of UT-Austin’s Faculty Council, also said the lieutenant governor’s tweet contradicted what faculty members have been told about the new center.

“We were told that the idea for the institute originated with faculty on campus,” she told The Texas Tribune.

The phrase "full-throated" always makes me cringe. So much worse than "moist."

[Nivek 16860]

1 hour ago, F250 said:

I was thinking this UT think tank would be like Hoover at Stanford and have legitimate academics but no we will definitely end up with a Creation museum with guest speakers Nailin Palin.

 

I could get behind Lisa Ann

[RDCanecutter 26281]

1 hour ago, F250 said:

I was thinking this UT think tank would be like Hoover at Stanford and have legitimate academics but no we will definitely end up with a Creation museum with guest speakers Nailin Palin.

 

Don't assume it'll be that rock-bottom. Slap up some paintings of fox hunts, and put a harpsichord in the photo behind some dude in a tweed jacket, and you can be like Auburn with the Mises Institute.

Don't worry about buying actual gold. They don't have any either. But don't skimp on the fox-hunting paintings and harpsichord. In a pinch you can settle for prints and a piano. Nobody will actually play the piano. They'll sit in front of it while they talk to the camera. Makes em aristocratic.

[RDCanecutter 26281]

4 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I'm a tenured professor, and I'll say it -- I would have done better without tenure. 

If you really wanted more money you'd've gotten nekkid pictures of the Dean.

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

4 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I'm a tenured professor, and I'll say it -- I would have done better without tenure.  Because of salary inversion, I'm the lowest-paid professor in my department, even though I have been there longest.  Tenure drastically cuts job turnover and salaries.  

Without tenure, I probably would have hit the job market as soon as we started hiring new PhDs at higher salaries than mine.  

Why would tenure keep you from leaving if you can get paid in full in the private sector?  Serious question because the only perk of tenure I’ve heard about is the “can’t get fired” part.  Are there other advantages?

[Blotto 23434]

7 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

If you really wanted more money you'd've gotten nekkid pictures of the Dean.

If he really wanted a lot more money, he'd have arranged for pictures where both he and the Dean are nekkid. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

40 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Why would tenure keep you from leaving if you can get paid in full in the private sector?  Serious question because the only perk of tenure I’ve heard about is the “can’t get fired” part.  Are there other advantages?

You can get fired with tenure, it is just more red tape and hoops. 

[Beau Vine 54003]

44 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Why would tenure keep you from leaving if you can get paid in full in the private sector?  Serious question because the only perk of tenure I’ve heard about is the “can’t get fired” part.  Are there other advantages?

Lifetime job security has a hell of a pull.

[Satchel 6908]

Dan won’t be satisfied until UT makes this list:

https://www.collegevaluesonline.com/features/colleges-young-republicans/

[F250 28691]

2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Lifetime job security has a hell of a pull.

[Cairn Horn88 8183]

9 hours ago, Nivek said:

Republicans = American Taliban

This state has 3 stooges running it....fuck them all.

[C-Man 27057]

12 hours ago, Blotto said:

It wouldn't be just for this reason, but this kind of shit is why I feel my time in Texas is coming to an end. Texas is rapidly becoming the biggest ideological shithole in the country, and that's saying something. A 268,597 mi² Mar-a-Lago. 

As things stand today, wife and I are out as soon as the youngest (8th grade) graduates HS.

[Voldemort86 2259]

12 hours ago, 'stache said:

I struggle with this on a daily basis living in Oklahoma, and to make it worse, my alternative for years was moving back to Texas, and that's looking like not so good an alternative anymore (not just the politics but the absurd cost of living increases over the last decade in Austin and Dallas where I would probably end up). At least we don't have bounties on abortion doctors, yet at least. We did let yet another death row inmate convulse to death for over 45 minutes by using whatever drug combination was available. Absolute savagery, I don't care what the convict did to earn the sentence. If you guys follow up with this one, I'm sure we'll quickly follow, and I'll probably pull the trigger and gtfo.

At least you have access to marijuana and gambling. 

[Bullneck 18987]

16 hours ago, Satchel said:

Texas may as well invite schools from across the country to cream skim the best and brightest from the state’s universities.

Dan Patrick just raised the tuition I'll have to pay for my kids to go to college in a couple of years, as demand in other states is about to rise.

[Bullneck 18987]

10 hours ago, Satchel said:

Dan won’t be satisfied until UT makes this list:

https://www.collegevaluesonline.com/features/colleges-young-republicans/

Baylor, Auburn, Clemson and a bunch of places you've never heard of.

15 hours ago, Satchel said:

Surely, UT faculty can’t be this naive:

“I will not stand by and let looney Marxist UT professors poison the minds of young students with Critical Race Theory,” Patrick wrote on the social media platform Twitter. “We banned it in publicly funded K-12 and we will ban it in publicly funded higher ed. That’s why we created the Liberty Institute at UT.”

…Either the lieutenant governor is just speaking out of school, or he’s reinforcing the very narrative that has provoked individual concerns last fall,” Texas law professor Steve Vladeck told The Texas Tribune. “It’s incumbent upon the university to provide a full-throated update and … explain to faculty members, to whom assurances were made in September, why the lieutenant governor is wrong. Or if he isn’t, why that attitude is acceptable?”

Domino Perez, the president of UT-Austin’s Faculty Council, also said the lieutenant governor’s tweet contradicted what faculty members have been told about the new center.

“We were told that the idea for the institute originated with faculty on campus,” she told The Texas Tribune.

A lot of people are saying that.

 

 

Edited February 19, 2022 by Bullneck

[RDCanecutter 26281]

5 hours ago, Bullneck said:

Baylor, Auburn, Clemson and a bunch of places you've never heard of.

I dunno... Christendom College sounds like a place where your kid would emerge knowing the Latin Mass, how to train a war horse, and the best mace to use for caving in Saracen skulls.