I would like to address the issue of the George W. Bush Presidential Library at SMU. Being a student at SMU, I feel I have a different perspective. Voting for President Bush in 2004, my opinion is biased.
However, I feel that this is an issue that is important to the entire campus. I know that many students support the building of the Bush Library at SMU, yet all we hear are teachers blasting the proposal due to “terrorist threats,” among other issues.
I ask professors at SMU to put aside their political beliefs and look at the benefits that SMU will receive from this Library. This will help make SMU a nationally respected college. President Ford had a 12 percent approval rating when he left office, yet he had a much higher rate at his death. Time heals everything.
By the time this library is built, we will have won the war in Iraq (and I believe we will win), and the U.S. will be better for the sacrifices of our soldiers.
I ask SMU students to come out and support President R. Gerald Turner’s decision to build the Library.
Although the professors of SMU may not support the library, the student body at SMU, the ones who the professors are suppose to be serving, supports this Library.
-Andrew Shepard
