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  • Chad Fuck
    Chad Fuck

    A friend asked for my script.  Here's what I told the lady: I am a graduate of the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Law.  I view this letter as extortion of the University.  It is an unc

  • SuingToGetAMessageBoard?
    SuingToGetAMessageBoard?

    They must have banned grade inflation in every class I took. 

  • wild_turkey
    wild_turkey

    Your summarization is incomplete and the devil is in the details. Here is the full text of the compact: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/4059a5dd-f3dc-4cf6-bf1f-9e0d98c2f8d9.pdf?itid=lk_inlin

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29 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Do they offer Masters at Bates?

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22 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

You know how that one friend of yours decided to suck dick for money?

No?  You don't know about that, because it happened behind closed doors and he kept it quiet?

Yeah.  It's like that.

And yet, you know about him. How is that?

Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

And yet, you know about him. How is that?

Cuz it always gets out eventually, dude.  I tried to warn you, but you went in there and closed the door behind you anyway.

We know, Pato.  We know.

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This letter from Jim Ryan, who was forced to resign as UVA's President, is something. This paragraph stood out to me and it captures the problem with this "compact."

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Finally, as indicated earlier, the lines between policy and the law have been repeatedly blurred during
this entire episode. The Board and University leaders set policy; the DOJ enforces the law. Too often,
people within the DOJ and on our own Board have implied that if we were following policies that they
did not favor, we were somehow doing something illegal. That is not the case, obviously. DEI, for
example, is not itself illegal. One can do illegal things in the name of DEI, just like one can do illegal
things in the name of promoting viewpoint diversity. But diversity itself, including viewpoint diversity,
is not against the law.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6xW62HI5oZaP15xhmtbaemtBtqrNZR/view

34 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

The fix was in.

It always is when fascists are involved.

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Why wasn't aggy on the list? They would have signed before the document even arrived. They just banned lessons that might portray white people as bad (slavery, segregation, redlining, etc.), are they putting it out there to get dear leader's attention? They can get that special treatment in federal grant money and buy them some athletes. 

I think you answered your own question, @'stache.

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Hey Jenny Slater.
Hey Jenny Slater.
 

 

22 hours ago, 'stache said:

Why wasn't aggy on the list? They would have signed before the document even arrived. They just banned lessons that might portray white people as bad (slavery, segregation, redlining, etc.), are they putting it out there to get dear leader's attention? They can get that special treatment in federal grant money and buy them some athletes. 

 

aggie would lick the orange dumbass's mouth clean after he blew all the guys at the party 

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11 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

aggie would lick the orange dumbass's mouth clean after he blew all the guys at the party 

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On 11/14/2025 at 4:18 PM, 'stache said:

Why wasn't aggy on the list? They would have signed before the document even arrived. They just banned lessons that might portray white people as bad (slavery, segregation, redlining, etc.), are they putting it out there to get dear leader's attention? They can get that special treatment in federal grant money and buy them some athletes. 

Because aggy is a pick me and a degree mill. No need to get them to sign a compact incentivizing them to do something they will do for free already. 

Plus, the universities being pressured to accept the "deal" are all widely considered to be good/elite schools by other academics and universities.

UT, UCLA, USC, Cornell, UVA, and/or UNC caving would signal a degree of inevitability and crank up pressure on peer schools to seek and accept their own deal, or risk being punished alone. 

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9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

The University of Texas at Austin has named a high-ranking administrator with an extensive history of racially inflammatory statements and support for DEI policies to a committee tasked with overhauling the university’s core curriculum.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/ut-austin-placed-dei-advocate-on-core-curriculum-review-committee/

As first reported by The Texas Horn, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Richard Reddick, who was recently named to a new core curriculum task force, has an extensive history of far-left statements. These include references to the United States’ alleged “white supremacist” founding, comparisons of President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and advocacy for so-called “diversity statements” in hiring.

Reddick’s university biography page confirms that he has published numerous articles in support of DEI and won several awards on the subject.

Most notably, Reddick appeared on a September 2025 podcast on which he framed higher education reformer Christopher Rufo’s efforts, and efforts to dismantle DEI, as “anti-democratic.”

As first reported by The Texas Horn, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Richard Reddick, who was recently named to a new core curriculum task force, has an extensive history of far-left statements. These include references to the United States’ alleged “white supremacist” founding, comparisons of President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and advocacy for so-called “diversity statements” in hiring.
Reddick’s university biography page confirms that he has published numerous articles in support of DEI and won several awards on the subject.
Most notably, Reddick appeared on a September 2025 podcast on which he framed higher education reformer Christopher Rufo’s efforts, and efforts to dismantle DEI, as “anti-democratic.”

Good.

Though this strikes me as dare I say it - a token appointment - so the rich white guys can keep on twisting their white supremacist, anti DEI campaign to diminish UT from within.

Nah.  Rich Reddick is a fast riser and growing influence.  Not token.  
 

Also it’s not like it’s hard to interpret the learnings of the author from the tone, but it sort of irks me that they wrote something that is supposed to inform us of this dude and they manage to not use the words “doctor” or “Harvard”

50 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Nah.  Rich Reddick is a fast riser and growing influence.  Not token.  
 

Also it’s not like it’s hard to interpret the learnings of the author from the tone, but it sort of irks me that they wrote something that is supposed to inform us of this dude and they manage to not use the words “doctor” or “Harvard”

And how did he get into Harvard and become a "doctor"? Illegal and "racist-against-whites" DEI initiatives. That's how. In fact, there's probably a smart hard working white out there that had his spot at Harvard stolen by that black guy. It's like you're not even paying attention.

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unqualified, hand-picked white male

Why, his qualifications are right there, ma'am.

- The 2025 hellscape that we live in

 

I hope the courts are flooded with these suits. Just people who got their jobs on the merits fighting back.
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Deadline has now passed and apparently, UT did not respond at all. I think someone in this thread said that is what would happen, so kudos to you.

15 hours ago, Reese Bennett said:

Deadline has now passed and apparently, UT did not respond at all. I think someone in this thread said that is what would happen, so kudos to you.

Better than a kick in the head I guess

I would have preferred a "fuck off" from UT, but I'll take running out the clock for now.

I’m hearing there would have been a mass exodus of faculty had it been accepted. 

The deadline was extended and UT is fighting to keep its status with the compact secret.  

 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/19/exclusive-trump-extends-deadline-for-universities-to-sign-higher-education-compact/

 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/21/public-universities-dont-want-discuss-compact

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In response to an Oct. 22 public records request from Inside Higher Ed, UT Austin shared only the initial emails exchanged by federal and university officials inviting the university to consider the compact, a copy of the proposal itself, and Eltife’s statement. The rest it wants to keep private.

UT system officials argued in a letter sent Tuesday to the attorney general’s office that the requested records are protected by attorney-client privilege and should not be disclosed.

 

1 minute ago, Your Mom said:

Well, there may actually be some legit attorney-client stuff in there - quite a bit, maybe.  When the compact offer/demand came in, I suspect that there were significant conversations with legal counsel regarding risks, repercussions, possible responsive strategies, etc., and a good bit of back and forth on that.

Any communication sent to the Trump administration - a third party - would NOT be privileged.  Now....that assertion of privilege will be reviewed by our Attorney General's office, and that Open Records division is . . . .short-staffed, by woefully inexperienced people (they ran off all the experienced folks) and (this is different than it used to be) much more susceptible to pressure/demands from politicians above than it used to be.  So, that part of the process isn't so great.  But, once they issue their decision and records are withheld, the requestors can appeal that and take it to court for a legit third-party evaluation of whether the privilege actually applies.

19 hours ago, Reese Bennett said:

Deadline has now passed and apparently, UT did not respond at all. I think someone in this thread said that is what would happen, so kudos to you.

I did. Good for us. This is something that should’ve been totally ignored as is the remainder of this guy’s term. 

1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

Sigh

What an amazing offer. Sell your university out to wildly unpopular fascists led by a lame duck president with dementia who gained power by deceiving the people and failing to follow through on anything he says. Who is a pedophile and rapist implicated in legal documents. Who just got routed in an off year election and had members of his party in congress stab him in the back recently. 

Or......

Just wait out a year or two of hardship and don't become the cowards who capitulated to pedophile fascists.

Such a tough choice. 

7 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

What an amazing offer. Sell your university out to wildly unpopular fascists led by a lame duck president with dementia who gained power by deceiving the people and failing to follow through on anything he says. Who is a pedophile and rapist implicated in legal documents. Who just got routed in an off year election and had members of his party in congress stab him in the back recently. 

Or......

Just wait out a year or two of hardship and don't become the cowards who capitulated to pedophile fascists.

Such a tough choice. 

When you realize that our state is run by unprincipled spineless cowards whose sole source of self-satisfaction is punching down.....the conundrum checks out.

1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

What an amazing offer. Sell your university out to wildly unpopular fascists led by a lame duck president with dementia who gained power by deceiving the people and failing to follow through on anything he says. Who is a pedophile and rapist implicated in legal documents. Who just got routed in an off year election and had members of his party in congress stab him in the back recently. 

Or......

Just wait out a year or two of hardship and don't become the cowards who capitulated to pedophile fascists.

Such a tough choice. 

I disagree with much of that characterization. But you don’t give people like Trump the time of day. Don’t waste a single second grinding on this. Ignore it. Then, ignore it when he lambasts you in the media, and ignore it when the governor puts pressure on you. 

16 hours ago, South Austin said:

I would have preferred a "fuck off" from UT, but I'll take running out the clock for now.

Once upon a time, I apparently offended some person with my driving.  She pulled up next to me and was screaming out her window at me.  I rolled my window down briefly.  She continued screaming at me.  I looked at her briefly, looked back ahead, and rolled up my window.  In my peripheral vision, I saw her go ape-shit at my nonresponse/ignoring her.  I don't know that that's exactly what we're doing here.  But if we are just ignoring him, no matter the reason, as long as it's perceived as a slap in the face, I'm good with it.

14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, there may actually be some legit attorney-client stuff in there - quite a bit, maybe.  When the compact offer/demand came in, I suspect that there were significant conversations with legal counsel regarding risks, repercussions, possible responsive strategies, etc., and a good bit of back and forth on that.

Any communication sent to the Trump administration - a third party - would NOT be privileged.  Now....that assertion of privilege will be reviewed by our Attorney General's office, and that Open Records division is . . . .short-staffed, by woefully inexperienced people (they ran off all the experienced folks) and (this is different than it used to be) much more susceptible to pressure/demands from politicians above than it used to be.  So, that part of the process isn't so great.  But, once they issue their decision and records are withheld, the requestors can appeal that and take it to court for a legit third-party evaluation of whether the privilege actually applies.

Because I honestly can't remember all the nuances of its jurisdiction and can't bother to look it up.  Does it go to the "Bidness" COA a/k/a 15th COA?

8 hours ago, dcbc said:

Because I honestly can't remember all the nuances of its jurisdiction and can't bother to look it up.  Does it go to the "Bidness" COA a/k/a 15th COA?

I haven't had a PIA case go on appeal to a court of appeals since the 15th started up, but I sure think it would.  Any case in which the state is a party goes to the 15th, and PIA cases are dec actions vs. the AG, so that's where it goes.

With my practice, the 15th has become my primary appellate court these days (used to be the 3rd, but there ya go).  At least I'm friends with all the judges on it.

50 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

With my practice, the 15th has become my primary appellate court these days (used to be the 3rd, but there ya go).  At least I'm friends with all the judges on it.

I didn’t know Scott Brister had any friends.

3 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I didn’t know Scott Brister had any friends.

Oh....there are some stories there.  We were co-appellate counsel on a series of cases.  We had....differing approaches to how to tackle the key issue.  We fought about it, sometimes contentiously on a series of calls that required other co-counsel to referee.  We reached a point of detente eventually.  He took the lead on one of the cases, including the argument.  The court of appeals ended up ruling our way, but based on the issue and approach I advanced, not the one he hung his hat on.  After that, we got along fine.  Oh, and I argued the remainder of the cases.

Go toe-to-toe with him and stand your ground and show that you know your shit, he'll respect you.  Which is the foundation of any decent relationship with him.  And, the process sure gave us good insight into how he thinks. 

I mean, I'm not going to be tailgating with him on Friday or anything, but he may be invited to our frito pie shindig.

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State sponsored snitches from the incel club designed to kill liberal arts, free inquiry, and the idea of higher education.

What could go wrong?

If there's anything that high school kids love, it's other high school kids pushing Christianity on them.

and this will be why I will end up letting my daughter go to a college out of the state next year....

2 minutes ago, freyguy said:

and this will be why I will end up letting my daughter go to a college out of the state next year....

My daughter has no interest in colleging in Texas. Hell, I might ban her from doing it anyway. 

Someone let Greg know we're under no obligation to fall behind BYU in every other type of rankings

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Go from claiming schools are indoctrinating students to setting up an indoctrination program.

Every accusation is …

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

If there's anything that high school kids love, it's other high school kids pushing Christianity on them.

When I was in HS, it was the FCA mafia.  When my daughter was in HS, it was Young Life.

I wonder how those groups feel about this?

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