I am a proud alum because Rice University is not like any other school. Rice attracts some of the most intelligent, capable, mature and well-rounded people in the world. By excluding them from the KTRU decision-making process, President Leebron and the board have communicated to all of us that they don’t trust the students to be discrete, mature and adult. If we cannot trust Leebron and the administration to understand this on relatively small issues like what to do about KTRU, why should we trust him to make the larger decisions affecting the larger Rice community we care so much about?

Doug Farry is a former Will Rice College president (’92).

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