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"The Thinker" by Gaby. (Source: Flikr) Recently, I wrote that I decided to share why I pay attention to UT-Tyler even though I graduated.  In my last post, I wrote that my primary reason for interest at the university is my belief that many young people are in despair. I wrote about that here . This week, I add my second reason.  So for people who accuse me of having an unhealthy fascination with UT-Tyler even after I have graduated, here is my second reason for caring about UT-Tyler.  Reason 2: I Have Something To Offer--Clear Thinking    I believe I can help others think clearly about what is true, good and beautiful in life--something that has meant a lot to me.  Thinking plays a significant role in my own life. For one, I am a thinking person. I think a lot. I am always mulling over problems, concepts and questions within my mind. I like to discover what makes life “work” and, consequently, what makes people work, too.   For another reason, I ...

  When I started to write about UT-Tyler even after I graduated, many people accused me of an unhealthy fascination. They said that I was active because emotionally, I could not move on from college, that I was stuck in bygone days. They have also accused me of not having a life on my own and all sorts of other stuff.  For this reason, I thought it would be good to state my reasons for having my attention on UT-Tyler. However, when I thought of them all, they became hard to explain. Moreover, they took a lot more than the normal length of my typical blog post to explain. Probably more than an average reader would stick around for.  So I decided to break each of them up into their own post which I will publish in the coming weeks.  For now, I hope these reasons can help me explain myself and my intentions more clearly and perhaps give answers to any honest mind wondering why I am still attentive to life and events at UT-Tyler.  Thank you for reading! Here is my...

(Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph) As I have perused through social media, I have seen many Progressive students at UT-Tyler tweet statements in support of the Black community. They say, “Black Lives Matter” and “support Black businesses” and “amplify Black voices.” Anything Black goes, because Progressives are collectivists. They don’t see John and Terrance, but White and Black. In the collectivist mindset, group identity is more significant than individual identity. So when it comes to race, it is not business owners, but Black business owners that they want to support. It is not voices, but Black voices. They claim solidarity with a Black collective and aim to elevate a group. Anyone who is Black is a member of this group. So, if being Black gives one membership to a group and if group membership means you deserve support—solely on the basis of being Black—then where is their support for their African-American University President Michael Tidwell? Why doesn’t h...

(Source: Flickr) In Patriot Talon’s December 9 issue, Opinion Editor David Young called on UT-Tyler administration to establish a free speech zone that would confine all campus speech activity to one campus location. Young claimed the university’s commitment to free speech placed students at risk of injury due to how others would use free speech. Young cited traveling preacher Jesse Morrell of Open Air Outreach and stated that a speaker like him, under administration’s current commitment to free speech, could subject students to controversial viewpoints that run against their personal beliefs and Young floated the idea that an off-campus speaker could even follow a student around campus and harass them in the name of free speech. Lastly, among his critiques for the administration, Young claimed that UT-Tyler officials left the campus without rules for this chaotic environment and that the solution was to establish a designated zone for all on-campus speech. Young wrote, “in...

Okay so, I just listened to Dr. Tidwell’s presentation to student government (SGA) about a spring graduation in the plaza. After hearing the plans and seeing accommodations administrators have made towards student concerns, it seems to me that much of the hysteria surrounding a plaza graduation has been way overblown. Here are a couple of reasons why I think so, along with some highlights from tonight’s meeting. Melting In the Sun Let’s take an easy example for starters: the concern about the temperature outdoors. Many of the 3,500 plus commentators on the petition that went around on social media in opposition to a plaza graduation stated they were going to melt in the Texas sun if the University held an outdoor graduation at the start of the Texas summer. However, as UT-Tyler’s Vice President of Marketing Lucas Roebuck pointed out during the meeting, (this wasn't his first point, but my pointing it out first) according to historical record, the average temperature on May 2 ...

No. 2 pencils (Source: Mitty via Flickr) You might not realize it, but the pencil is a free market wonder. Little did you know that while you were writing your midterm essay with pencil in your hand that you were holding a market wonder, a force for world peace and a product of human cooperation. That’s right. The power and forces of the free market system brought people together to produce your pencil. "The pencil is a force for world peace and a product of human cooperation in the market system." And what kind of forces were they that brought it to you? Were they coercive forces of a socialist government where bureaucrats threaten producers to produce or else face government police power? No, it was cooperative forces under the free market. Individuals from all of the world came together to make your pencil and they did it voluntarily. Someone somewhere produced the rubber that made your eraser. Someone produced the wood and the lead that makes up its stem. ...

"Euless Trinity's Mack Beggs, top, wrestles Lewisville's Elyse Nelson during the 6A Region II wrestling meet at Allen High School in Allen, Texas, Beggs, a senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas is transgender and in the process of transitioning from female to male. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News via AP)" - The Washington Times It doesn't take long in one's research about Feminism to discover the gender neutrality movement. Its adherents hold that it is arbitrary and oppressive to gender someone or to make gender an issue in decision-making. These believe that gender is a social construct and carries with it gender-specific roles that oppress the individual, particularly women. In response to this, they push for gender neutrality in government policies, families and businesses for example, and the movement's proponents claim when gender neutrality advances, then women win. Yet, in many ways, the gender neutrality movement is a tre...