Thank you for posting. I got the message last evening but how is it conveyed by the Houston media? Perception and reality are too often different from one another.
Unknown other than the last article from Ellis.
We’ll see when the Chronicle posts their next story about it.
Well I sure like Turner’s idea of tu selling the land to UH 
Other than that, I want nothing to do with the bongwhorns. And I mean till eternity!
Finally…
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And what will happen if this doomed project disappears? Somehow, the arguments do not acknowledge the successful UH Energy Research Park, a nearly 75-acre office and industrial park complex, located at the former Schlumberger corporate site, adjacent to the UH campus off Interstate 45. It has almost three-quarters of a million square feet of space for office/warehouse, industrial and light manufacturing use, and will provide exactly the research infrastructure touted by UT and its partisans.
Tomlinson scolds UH and others for their blindness in not accepting the “brilliant idea” of focusing on data analytics, the proposed new focus of the proposed new “campus” in Houston. I am reminded of the meaningless and unhelpful advice proferred in the 1967 movie, “The Graduate,” wherein Mr. McGuire imparts to the character, Benjamin, the importance of “Plastics.” (“There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?”)
I do not know whether to laugh or to cry.
We do not need wasteful and inefficient duplication, continued inequality across the state’s far-flung higher-ed institutional map, and stealth tactics to gain political points.
This was a bad idea, not a great gift that the recipients simply failed to recognize.
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I love that different journalists are taking shots at each other from within the chronicle, just is starting to make the HC look bad more than anything.
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Great piece. Thanks for the link!
https://twitter.com/lindsayaellis/status/885587603139035136
https://twitter.com/lindsayaellis/status/885601128842440706
https://twitter.com/lindsayaellis/status/885602402207924224
why is it that I don’t trust McRaven?
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Aggie Chancellor taking shots at McRaven:
Sharp also brings up Chancellor McRaven’s decision in 2015 to purchase a large plot of land in Houston without first informing the state’s political leadership. “What a clusterfuck,” Sharp said, shaking his head incredulously. He says that when state leaders find out about a $215 million purchase at the last minute, it’s going to cause a furor. (The political uproar over the Houston land purchase led McRaven to reluctantly abandon his plan for a new research campus in March, a move that for the moment has tempered state leaders’ criticisms of the UT chancellor.)
Chronicle bringing UT-Houston again and going to big-time UT donor and real estate magnate, David Wolff, for their quote. No quote from the opposition.
They conveniently forget the 300 acres was purchased without a plan. Data science center came later and likely didn’t need 300 acres.
His decision, which he attributed to his health, comes weeks before his three-year contract ends, though UT’s board chair said McRaven would continue until the academic year concludes in May.
McRaven, the retired Navy admiral responsible for the raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia when he was in Afghanistan. He was briefly hospitalized in November.