March 7, 2008

An Uneasy Partnership

By DAVID GLENN

In a ceremony last month, R. Gerald Turner, president of Southern Methodist University, signed a 143-page contract to bring the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum to his campus. After the signing, a reporter asked Mr. Turner about faculty concerns that the Bush complex — in particular, an independent, conservative policy institute attached to the library — might undermine Southern Methodist's openness and academic norms.

Mr. Turner predicted that the

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