University of Texas President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become "symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism."
Fenves announced the move late Sunday night as crews were in place to begin taking the statues down. The school also blocked off the area during the process, and the statues are expected to be gone by mid-morning Monday, a spokesman said.
The university moved a statue of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its perch near the campus clock tower to a history museum in 2015. Fenves now says statues of Lee, Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan, which were in the same area as Davis, also will be moved to the Brisco Center for American History on campus.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-Confederate-Statues-Texas-University/2017/08/21/id/808738/
I called the President's office this morning and registered my disgust for cowtowing to a small minority and emboldening them for further action to destroy our history and country.
The person I talked to obviously could have cared less, indicative of an isolated, elitist leadership.
The current President Greg Fenves learned his radicalism after spending 20 years at Berkeley, so I guess we got what we deserved when we placed him in that position. What a mistake, getting someone who knows so little of what makes Texas what it is.
Where is Frank Erwin when we need him?
The Battle of Waller Creek
Careful! Look close, or you might miss it. Take a stroll along the sidewalk, heading north on San Jacinto Boulevard as it approaches the football stadium. The street makes a long, lazy curve as it follows the route of Waller Creek, just to the west. But as you near the stadium, where the creek straightens out for a bit, the road makes a slight veer to the left. The sidewalk that once shadowed the creek’s bank from a polite distance is abruptly pushed over and rudely intrudes out over the embankment, supported by concrete pillars.
Decades ago, this spot was informally dubbed “Erwin’s Bend,” after Board of Regents chair Frank Erwin, though the name wasn’t intended as a token of admiration. In 1969, this was the site of the “Battle of Waller Creek,” a famed student protest against the removal of trees to make room for a stadium expansion
https://jimnicar.com/2013/11/11/the-battle-of-waller-creek/
