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1 hour ago, pyrohornIII said:

I remember this happening, but I don't think it happened in CS.  That game was Home for Rice on the odd years.  

 I looked it up. 1980 at Aggieland. Final Rice 10 - A&M 6. Trailing at half, no first downs in 2d half. Rice found a way to win. I think Emory Bellard was A&M coach. Can’t remember Owls coach. Classic snagging victory from jaws of defeat game.

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26 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

Fired may be the wrong term, "asked to leave your position" not at your discretion, is effectively the same thing as a football coach who is "reassigned" to a different role in the AD.

Right, but that's not what it says. The article says he will leave at the end of the month. It doesn't say he was asked to leave or asked to resign. 

It basically reads he didn't like what happened and is leaving on his own because of that, which makes aggy look even worse. 

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21 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

"Resigned effective end of the month" usually means fired.

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Bermúdez said he will leave his role at the end of the month. He did not know who his successor would be. Bermúdez told The Texas Tribune he had no further comment about his decision to step down, but said he would remain as a professor at the university's philosophy department.

Fired usually means you no longer work there.

He will "remain as a professor at the university's philosophy department."

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Not to belabor this point, but let me belabor this point.  You're correct that the article doesn't state who initiated the departure of the interim dean.  It could very well be the dean resigned in protest because they treated Ms. McElroy unfairly.  It could also be that he didn't complete his full due diligence on the hire in the first place, including making sure that the approval by the Board of Regents was assured, prior to making an offer, then looks like a clown for rescinding the offer twice, as well as a conflict of interest in finally advising Ms. McElroy to stay at Texas.  

Not defending aggy in any way here, it's just a bad look all around.

A similar thing happened to Bill Powers at the end of his UT presidency.  He was forced to resign, but stayed with the University as professor in the law school.  Make no mistake though, he lost his high profile job.

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“The recent challenges regarding Dr. [Kathleen] McElroy have made it clear to me that I must retire immediately. The negative press is a distraction from the wonderful work being done here.”

Please show your work.

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aggy at it again..

From "Giant Freaking Robot"

Scientists are here to rock the engineering community’s world to its structurally sound core. As reported by ScienceAlert, a new study out of Sandia National Laboratories and Texas A&M University has found that metal has the ability to “heal itself.” The team observed a cracked piece of platinum fuse itself back together at the molecular level.

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Remember kids, “Acting” means you’re filling in for someone until the original person can return to that role. “Interim” means you’re in that role until a permanent can be found. This man is the Interim president, not acting president since Banks isn’t returning. Maybe aggy shouldn’t have been so quick to fire McElroy. 
 

 

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4 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

aggy at it again..

From "Giant Freaking Robot"

Scientists are here to rock the engineering community’s world to its structurally sound core. As reported by ScienceAlert, a new study out of Sandia National Laboratories and Texas A&M University has found that metal has the ability to “heal itself.” The team observed a cracked piece of platinum fuse itself back together at the molecular level.

Even platinum clenches its butt cheeks when aggy is around. 

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10 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

By the time the fallout from the journalism school fiasco is over, aggy may have successfully rid themselves of every woman and minority in the school's administration.

This is working out for hard core aggy better than they could have ever expected. Got rid of both McIlroy and Banks. It will never occur to those morons why revising someone's employment offer repeatedly so that they don't accept is generally viewed as an embarrassing fuckup by their admin. 

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5 hours ago, Pancho said:

Remember kids, “Acting” means you’re filling in for someone until the original person can return to that role. “Interim” means you’re in that role until a permanent can be found. This man is the Interim president, not acting president since Banks isn’t returning. Maybe aggy shouldn’t have been so quick to fire McElroy. 
 

 

You're going out on a pretty weak limb assuming aggy knows the difference between interim and acting. 

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6 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

By the time the fallout from the journalism school fiasco is over, aggy may have successfully rid themselves of every woman and minority in the school's administration.

You’re saying that like it’s a bad thing. 
 

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9 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

By the time the fallout from the journalism school fiasco is over, aggy may have successfully rid themselves of every woman and minority in the school's administration.

Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, called Banks' resignation a "wakeup call for all of us" and that Texas A&M's reputation had been damaged.

"Let's face it, education of students is no longer a primary consideration," Bledsoe said. "That lofty goal has been replaced by a political, anti-Black, anti-Brown and anti-education agenda."

 "We can't just give people a set of facts anymore," she said. "I think we know that and we have to tell our students that. This is not about getting two sides of a story or three sides of a story, if one side is illegitimate. I think now you cannot cover education, you cannot cover criminal justice, you can't cover all of these institutions without realizing how all these institutions were built."

A right-leaning outlet in Texas highlighted those comments in a story after McElroy's hiring and the publisher Friday said it helped expose a "woke agenda" at Texas A&M.

"Just as a little sunlight sends the cockroaches scurrying, exposing the statements and writings of these #HigherEd propagandists sends them into fits of hysteria," tweeted Michael Quinn Sullivan, the publisher of Texas Scorecard and previous head of a conservative group backed by wealthy GOP donors."

 

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8 hours ago, TheBryMan81 said:

This was from an article in The Athletic discussing possible head coaching candidates at Northwestern. One candidate they mentioned is one Mike Elko. They decided to skip one of his jobs so they could make the point that he had worked at prestigious academic schools. Guess which school they skipped...

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Oops!

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43 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, called Banks' resignation a "wakeup call for all of us" and that Texas A&M's reputation had been damaged.

"Let's face it, education of students is no longer a primary consideration," Bledsoe said. "That lofty goal has been replaced by a political, anti-Black, anti-Brown and anti-education agenda."

 "We can't just give people a set of facts anymore," she said. "I think we know that and we have to tell our students that. This is not about getting two sides of a story or three sides of a story, if one side is illegitimate. I think now you cannot cover education, you cannot cover criminal justice, you can't cover all of these institutions without realizing how all these institutions were built."

A right-leaning outlet in Texas highlighted those comments in a story after McElroy's hiring and the publisher Friday said it helped expose a "woke agenda" at Texas A&M.

"Just as a little sunlight sends the cockroaches scurrying, exposing the statements and writings of these #HigherEd propagandists sends them into fits of hysteria," tweeted Michael Quinn Sullivan, the publisher of Texas Scorecard and previous head of a conservative group backed by wealthy GOP donors."

 

A&M wants votes in the Texas Lege.  It needs voters sympathetic to A&M policy to keep electing those folks.  They aren't anti Brown.  In fact they've been courting the hispanic vote for decades.  Remember Elsa Murano and how long she lasted?     

They will sell out what principles they have left to gain a larger voting bloc and this is another example.  They're not worried about inclusivity.   The largest minority is hispanic, and that's what they are concentrating on.  

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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/banks-tamu-journalism-hire/?fbclid=IwAR2EZmPIl3s5ZTaxb6JMTHn9NUS85E5Jh9YXMz_N9ObqgD5PeCPkYTcu1so

Hart Blanton, the head of aggy’s department of communications and journalism, said then-President M. Katherine Banks interfered with the recruitment of journalist Kathleen McElroy and race was a factor in the failed hiring.

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On 7/20/2023 at 11:46 AM, PTINS said:

Fired usually means you no longer work there.

He will "remain as a professor at the university's philosophy department."

Fired, quit, makes no difference; of course he’s going back to his regular office and classroom-he’s a tenured professor at a large state school.  Duh!

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