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Plan for Bush library on SMU campus stirs protest: Faculty and Methodist clergy oppose project

Southern Methodist University, which holds to its denomination’s standards for leadership and public service, has become embroiled in a controversy over linking itself permanently to the husband of one of its most famous alumni, Laura Bush.

Representatives of President George W. Bush have selected the Dallas campus to be the location of his presidential library, but many faculty members have protested, saying that the Bush library would harm the university’s mission.