Well, supposedly, it won’t actually be bye, bye to UT prez Bill Powers until next June, but we’ll see. The Board of Regents wanted October at the latest and they may get it yet. All this after their review found political favoritism in admissions on Powers’ watch.
“Undergrad applicants with recommendation letters from lawmakers had a 58.7% admission rate at UT between 2009 and 2013 compared to a 15.8% overall admission rate. Half of the law school applicants with special letters were admitted, compared to 22.5% overall, and some of the favored had scores well below average.”
By state law, UT and other state universities must admit the top 10 percent of a Texas high school’s graduating class. The next 40 percent can apply without any guarantees. The remainder are out of luck. Looks like the politically-connected in the 40 percent were getting a boost and some of the bottom 50 percent were getting into law school.
Via Wall Street Journal.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I haven’t kept up with this, because I’m not a big UT fan – come to think of it, I’m not a UT fan at all. Nor TAMU. Whatever. I thought it was supposed to be this way, that if you got political support, you got an advantage in acceptance. Is that not right and proper?
It’s certainly realistic, but I think it’s considered unethical if not exactly illegal. In poor taste, at the least. Not at all surprising to anyone who has had many dealings with the university, however. I like to keep up with their football team and I used to know a lot of their scientists and some engineers. But most of the latter are retired so it’s just football for me now. This particular hurrah is just political entertainment. Something to post about, instead of our jackass president. Or the Democrat Depression.