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Old 12-24-2007, 04:34 PM   #16
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A former high-profile VP at BYU told a friend of mine that if he were in charge, he would immediately disband the engineering, law, and business schools and make BYU strictly a liberal arts school. In other words, get rid of the the only three programs that have any kind of national respect. I took some solace in the fact that dumbass ideas like this are tough to pull off unless one can build a broad concensus among the leadership. Not bloody likely. I suspect that dropping sports would be similarly difficult. One can only hope.
I am not kidding you. A lot of folks think the place should just be a holding tank for the masses until they can get them off on a mission, back and married with kids. Some think that should be what it is all about there.
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