Growing up, summertime always meant swimming pools, sleep-away camp and girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch. But as I got older, my parents’ attitude about my favorite time of year shifted from “go out and play” to “go out and get a damn job.”
The memorial service displayed both the enormous amount of friendship and respect Shirley Bird Perry had established over a lifetime with so many people and the enormous circle of power in which she worked her magic.
I first learned about checkoff programs when I encountered radio ads discouraging people from drinking unpasteurized (raw) milk, sponsored by an organization called DairyMax.
In the latest and perhaps the most surprising rebuke of attempts to reform Texas higher education, 22 prominent Texas A&M alumni formed the “Alliance for Texas A&M University” to educate the A&M community about reforms that could compromise their university’s academic reputation.
If you’re going to play political games and fight ideological wars against the boogey-men of Ivory Tower academia, take it to some other part of the state.