A bitter dispute has broken out among academics at the Southern Methodist University in Texas over plans to establish an institution based on the ideology of George W Bush.
A vocal group of professors opposed to the war in Iraq and the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay has expressed concern that the library and a think tank would adversely affect the reputation of the university and contradict its Christian values.
At a recent vote, the faculty senate split 13-13 on a proposal to make the new institution completely separate from the university, where Laura Bush, the First Lady, took her degree in education. Both she and Mr Bush are Methodists....