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Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture
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<blockquote data-quote="essentialsaltes" data-source="post: 77305854" data-attributes="member: 294566"><p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-m-suspended-professor-accused-100000525.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark" target="_blank">Joy Alonzo, a respected opioid expert, was in a panic.</a></p><p></p><p>The Texas A&M University professor had just returned home from giving a routine lecture on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch when she learned a student had accused her of disparaging Lt. Gov. <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/directory/dan-patrick/" target="_blank">Dan Patrick</a> during the talk.</p><p></p><p>In the few hours it took to drive from Galveston, the complaint had made its way to her supervisors, and Alonzo’s job was suddenly at risk.</p><p></p><p>Alonzo was right to be afraid. Not only were her supervisors involved, but so was Chancellor John Sharp, a former state comptroller who now holds the highest-ranking position in the Texas A&M University System, which includes 11 public universities and 153,000 students.</p><p></p><p>Sharp sent a text directly to the lieutenant governor: “Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week.”</p><p></p><p>The Texas A&M system confirmed the series of phone calls and text messages that led to Alonzo’s investigation was kicked off by Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, a graduate of UTMB’s medical school. The Tribune confirmed her daughter, a first-year medical student at the time, attended Alonzo’s lecture. Buckingham served six years in the Texas Senate with Patrick, who endorsed her run for land commissioner last year, and she recently attended Sharp’s wedding in May.</p><p></p><p>The revelation comes as Texas A&M is reeling over concerns that the university allowed politically motivated outsiders to derail the hiring of <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/" target="_blank">Kathleen McElroy</a>, a Black journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, to revive the journalism school at Texas A&M. The subsequent outcry over how Texas A&M handled the situation prompted the <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/tamu-president-resign-journalism/" target="_blank">university president to resign last week</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="essentialsaltes, post: 77305854, member: 294566"] [URL='https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-m-suspended-professor-accused-100000525.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark']Joy Alonzo, a respected opioid expert, was in a panic.[/URL] The Texas A&M University professor had just returned home from giving a routine lecture on the opioid crisis at the University of Texas Medical Branch when she learned a student had accused her of disparaging Lt. Gov. [URL='https://www.texastribune.org/directory/dan-patrick/']Dan Patrick[/URL] during the talk. In the few hours it took to drive from Galveston, the complaint had made its way to her supervisors, and Alonzo’s job was suddenly at risk. Alonzo was right to be afraid. Not only were her supervisors involved, but so was Chancellor John Sharp, a former state comptroller who now holds the highest-ranking position in the Texas A&M University System, which includes 11 public universities and 153,000 students. Sharp sent a text directly to the lieutenant governor: “Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week.” The Texas A&M system confirmed the series of phone calls and text messages that led to Alonzo’s investigation was kicked off by Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, a graduate of UTMB’s medical school. The Tribune confirmed her daughter, a first-year medical student at the time, attended Alonzo’s lecture. Buckingham served six years in the Texas Senate with Patrick, who endorsed her run for land commissioner last year, and she recently attended Sharp’s wedding in May. The revelation comes as Texas A&M is reeling over concerns that the university allowed politically motivated outsiders to derail the hiring of [URL='https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/']Kathleen McElroy[/URL], a Black journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, to revive the journalism school at Texas A&M. The subsequent outcry over how Texas A&M handled the situation prompted the [URL='https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/tamu-president-resign-journalism/']university president to resign last week[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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