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re: Thanks to SEC and Heisman - A&M receives record 37,000 applications

Posted on 2/2/13 at 9:43 pm to
Posted by aggressor
Austin, TX
Member since Sep 2011
8714 posts
Posted on 2/2/13 at 9:43 pm to
So because the original intent of the PUF (which was basically worthless land when it was granted) was to create a "University of the First Class" Texas should not consider any changes no matter how big it gets or how large the population of Texas becomes?

Texas is the effectively the same size today as it was when I enrolled at A&M in 1989. Yet at the same time the PUF has exploded and there are 10 million more people in the State with over 500k new ones a year. Yet you think the solution is for Texas to stay the same size and share as little PUF money as possible?. That solution will result in a continued brain drain of the best and brightest in Texas because they won't have options for getting a Tier 1 or Tier II education?

Texas doesn't even need the money. It is severely limited on what it can be spent on in terms of buildings and infrastructure. It is disgusting as an Austin taxpayer I am going to have to pay even more taxes to pay for the new hospital because Texas wanted to use as little PUF money as possible. As I said, Texas treats the PUF as "their money" and not the people's money. You aren't a private school and your mission is to the people of the State.

It's pathetic you keep trying to make some bizarre point about how the Texas Constitution originally wrote how the school system would be structured seeing as how that is never how it has been implemented and Texas didn't even exist as a University until several years later when A&M was already functioning. The schools and systems are separate and always have been.
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