The Campus Conservative

  (Driving by Simon Collison via Flickr) Have you noticed how much UT-Tyler has changed?  Over the last five years, specifically with President Kirk Calhoun’s arrival, the university has exploded in the size of its administration and oversight of student life. For example, the institution is now hiring its first diversity officer, has pushed again for a higher athletics fees and has vowed to provide more traditions and social programming for student life, expanding its administrative reach ever farther. That’s a lot of administrative growth!  However, it’s not always for the better. This kind expansion leads to a larger bureaucracy that is ultimately more expensive to operate and eventually more costly for students through higher tuition and fees. However, if there is any group of students who can put a check on this expansion, then it is the commuter students at UT-Tyler. By opposing the next athletics fee increase, UT-Tyler’s commuter students can rein-in Big Education’...

("Soup Kitchen" by Frankie Roberto via Flickr) If there’s anything a college campus has a lot of, it’s programs. There’s a program for nearly anything. There’s a program to stop smoking, a program for getting free food, and even a program to distribute free tampons. Moreover, there are also public awareness campaigns galore on college campuses, such as campaigns to promote awareness about sexual assault, domestic violence, and an endless number of other campaigns for nearly every social ill under the sun. The abundance of programs on college campuses demonstrate the Liberal’s over-dependence upon programs and interventionist approaches to solve human ills. However, interventionism is not the way to change people’s behavior. Rather than intervening in someone else’s life to protect them from this or that by extension of an impersonal program, it’s through reinforcing participation in meaningful human relationships that lift people into wholesome living. Let us consider: interv...

(Source: Al Case via Flickr) Will UT-Tyler get a football team? “I think it’s gonna happen,” Vice President for Athletics at UT-Tyler Howard Patterson told KVUT in an interview on Feb. 9. “I just don’t think it it's going to be in the near future or possibly not even [in] this decade.” Patterson said that infrastructure and finances are some of the main obstacles to a football team at UT-Tyler at this time. Here’s his full response: To start an NCAA Division 2 football program, you probably need five years of ‘okay, we’re gonna do it’ and five years from now we play our first intercollegiate competition. So you’ve got to hire coaches. You’ve got to do recruiting. You’ve got to recruit [the] leadership class that will be the leaders the next year when you actually start playing, and not to mention $60 million in facilities. That’s the big part. (And that’s an old figure, too. It used to be 50. I think it’s at least 60 now or maybe more.) But we have no locker rooms. We have no stora...