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Pato del Muerto

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  1. 4 hours ago, troph said:

    Now should Hartzell stand up to Abbott? I don't know, that depends on a lot of other factors the facts of which I simply am not privy to. But I'd sure as shit love to know. The DEI shit and now this shit?  Yeah, I'm very, very concerned which way this goes. 

    It depends on who you think Hartzell is supposed to be serving. If it’s the state of Texas, the expectations are different than if it’s the university of Texas. 
     

    if he was making 75k as a prof and eyeing a tenure(has the state taken that away yet?), speaking out would be significantly damaging to him so I wouldn’t blame him for not. However, at his current role, salary, and point of his career- yes he should fight Abbott if he thinks Abbott is wrong. 

    The statement with his name on it shows that he either thinks like Abbott or feels like he has to acquiesce to him. 

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  2. 4 minutes ago, troph said:

    not really. that CEO isn't subject to being crushed by MAGA state leadership.  you can't say he's a public servant then use a private for profit example, they aren't even close to the same thing. 

    I'm simply stating we do not know what happened that led to this with respect to this singular decision.

    As for Hartzell as a president, his leadership is certainly suspect I agree and to that point, I have the same questions. To what extent is UT getting squeezed by state politics in ways that make his decision making authority futile?  To what extent is he being told on certain topics what he has to do or else?  I think UT has much bigger issues to be concerned about than simply a president that may suck. I think the problems are much more dire than that.

    I think students, faculty, alumni, donors, and prospective students have the right to know if hartzell is impotent and abbott is running the university. 

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  3. 9 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    I would've jump-started the offense by skipping Daddy and double-shifting Marchment or Stanky, but that's just me. 

    And I didn't think we were playing that poorly when he did it; we were just getting zero puck luck and playing against a really good D.

    Wasn’t marchment hurt, which was part of the reason for the line changes?

  4. 3 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

    Then there is this tweet below that alludes to Adonai's "football character stuff" causing his draft stock to fall. I had no idea!

     

     

    Dejean is a white cb just say it, teams are leery

  5. Just now, naija said:

    sucks, that with a 1 pick difference, just being able to say "1st round pick"

    we might have won the 1st round if they stayed put

    Washington had 3 top 20 picks

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I haven't been down on campus for a while. Are there really people still wearing N95s as they walk around outdoors? You should have hit the accelerator. 

    And poor fitting N95s at that. Performative. 

    Perhaps the young person has a cold or some other respiratory illness and is trying to be considerate of others while still going about his day?

     

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  7. 13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yes....if only there was a trail of past actions of the folks who submitted those affidavits, DPS officers, with which to discern.....hmmmm.

    "DPS says it, I believe it."  That's not something to put on one's resume.  Unless you're applying to join the new gestapo, I guess.

    Oh, and again, based on your stated standard, we need to shut down having crowds at UT football games, right?  I mean, we KNOW that there will be lots of lawlessness among that group of miscreants, why wait until they actually do something?  Let's nip it in the bud, and just get all of those assholes off our campus.  That's your rule.  Let's apply it.

    Most in attendance aren’t even students!

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  8. 34 minutes ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

     

    They took them at their word, and because of their previous actions at Columbia, USC, etc. Here is the instagram post announcing the "occupation":

    "Reclaim our space"

    "Class is canceled"

    "Occupy the lawn"

    "In the footsteps of our comrades at Columbia SJP, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Yale, and countless others across the nation, we will be establishing THE POPULAR UNIVERSITY FOR GAZA and demanding our administration divest from death."

    Watching what the "solidarity committees" did at Columbia and Yale, perhaps it was prudent to take them at their word. The fact that 26 of the arrestees weren't student, and were outside agitators, should be a clue.

    So you just ignore the entire last paragraph where they say they plan to be there “all day” which should be fine and within the rules, and to listen to organizers to keep everyone safe?

    as to non-student “agitators” it’s a public space so if non students want to attend they should be able to while following the rules and if they don’t then they get dealt with. DPS wasn’t there to take care of bad actors, they were there to break it up and they say as much with the statements put out by the school president, the utpd, and the governor. 

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  9. 57 minutes ago, immamac said:

    He should have gone to the organizer in person on campus and talked to them in front of everyone to say what was and wasn’t gonna happen and if they didn’t listen he was going to have to call authorities.

    And taken that security guard that he and the students love so much, to mediate. 

  10. Hartzell’s letter also appears to ascribe a meaning to the word occupy that is above and beyond the generally accepted meaning of being in the space. And using the term as sometimes to imply “without authority to do so.”  Then acting on the implied meaning prior to any actual rules being violated. 

    “Nobody is allowed to occupy campus” is such a red herring.

     

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  11. I take issue with the lack of specificity of what rules were being violated, by whom, when, and what was done about it.  
    I also wonder why, at a public university, he feels the need to mention non-students participating or why it’s important. 

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