Monks Jazz Club
Does Anyone Like This Plan?
RECEIVED Mon., June 29, 2009
Dear Editor,
Re: “Muny Isn't Part of UT's Grand Plans” [News, June 26]: Is there anyone other than the Board of Regents or Cooper, Robertson & Partners that likes this plan? Maybe I'm a bit biased being a cranky graduate student in integrative biology, but I don't think this plan makes sense for anyone. For one thing, I recall them talking about the giant traffic problem on Lake Austin being an issue. How the hell is a large development going to help this? In general, why is it that teaching and research resources always seem to get the short end of the stick? I might be misinformed, but I thought that the point of a university was for learning, not making a profit. Or do we need to sell off the Brackenridge Tract to pay for more law firms to come in, take recommendations, completely ignore said recommendations, and do whatever the hell the regents wanted to do in the first place? I wish I could hire ass-kissers from N.Y. for all my harebrained ideas.
Re: “Muny Isn't Part of UT's Grand Plans” [News, June 26]: Is there anyone other than the Board of Regents or Cooper, Robertson & Partners that likes this plan? Maybe I'm a bit biased being a cranky graduate student in integrative biology, but I don't think this plan makes sense for anyone. For one thing, I recall them talking about the giant traffic problem on Lake Austin being an issue. How the hell is a large development going to help this? In general, why is it that teaching and research resources always seem to get the short end of the stick? I might be misinformed, but I thought that the point of a university was for learning, not making a profit. Or do we need to sell off the Brackenridge Tract to pay for more law firms to come in, take recommendations, completely ignore said recommendations, and do whatever the hell the regents wanted to do in the first place? I wish I could hire ass-kissers from N.Y. for all my harebrained ideas.
Ginnie Morrison
