Editorials: "Halliburton Scholars"

[maddezmom]

Editorials: "Halliburton Scholars"

If you could pick one company to represent war profiteering in the United States, the answer would be simple: Halliburton. The company formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney has received billions of dollars in no-bid contracts for services in Iraq and recently announced it will move its corporate headquarters to the Middle East.

So we were quite surprised to discover that the University would seek to brand students who complete a summer program in the McCombs School of Business, which would give them the equivalent of a business minor, as "Halliburton Scholars."

According to documents obtained by The Daily Texan, the University has been pursuing a negotiated deal worth hundreds of thousands of dollars with Halliburton to support a creative summer venture. The program would offer classes at the McCombs School of Business to 50 non-business undergraduates in a 10-week program, and graduates would receive the equivalent of a business minor.

According to the documents, President William Powers requested approval from the UT System on Nov. 14, 2006, to negotiate naming the project the "Halliburton Summer Business Foundations Program" until at least 2008. (In May 2006, the regents passed a rule that mandates System approval for all corporate naming opportunities.)

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According to administrators in the business school, the negotiations are a done deal. The program will indeed be called the Halliburton Summer Business Foundations Program, but we're still not sure if each graduate will be called a "Halliburton Scholar," as laid out in the original proposal.

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[LiberalFighter]

1. Rename these "scholars"

[nealmhughes]

2. Good Lord! Most Ayn Rand anarchocapitalist proto Budding Business Barons I have encountered

would love the nomenclature of "Haliburton Scholar."

Rand taught that only Westerners can be fully realized humans, ya know, the rest of the world branded as mere "collectivists" and therefore it is one's moral duty to squeeze any money out of their "suffering" as is humanly possible.

A = A, afta all.