{"id":8768,"date":"2015-03-31T17:08:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2015-03-31T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:08:43","slug":"grand-jury-calls-for-ut-regents-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8768","title":{"rendered":"Grand jury calls for UT regent's removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wallace Hall should hit the road and leave the University of Texas System Board of Regents.<\/p>\n

That’s the recommendation from — get a load of this — a Travis County grand jury.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/03\/31\/grand-jury-rules-wallace-hall\/<\/p>\n

Hall has been in the middle of a firestorm for more than a year over regents’ relationship with UT-Austin President Bill Powers. Criminal charges were filed against Hall, alleging that he went far beyond his mandate as a regent and meddled in administrative matters that are supposed to be within the campus president’s purview. The complaint alleged specifically that Hall shared private student information with his lawyers.<\/p>\n

“Transparency and accountability are key elements in maintaining citizens’ trust in their government,” the report said. “Regent Hall demonstrated neither accountability nor transparency in his actions.”<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune reports that the grand jury action is unusual in its scope and in the strength in the wording it uses in recommending Hall’s ouster from the UT Board of Regents.<\/p>\n

The grand jury didn’t indict Hall, but it went almost as far in calling for his ouster.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking Regent Hall ought to go. I also am thinking the board of regents ought to stop meddling in UT-Austin administrative business.<\/p>\n

Enough is enough.<\/p>\n

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Wallace Hall should hit the road and leave the University of Texas System Board of Regents. That’s the recommendation from — get a load of this — a Travis County grand jury. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/03\/31\/grand-jury-rules-wallace-hall\/ Hall has been in the middle of a firestorm for more than a year over regents’ relationship with UT-Austin President Bill Powers. … Continue reading Grand jury calls for UT regent's removal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[641,4728,4896,5028,5068,5157],"class_list":["post-8768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-bill-powers","tag-texas-tribune","tag-travis-county-grand-jury","tag-university-of-texas-system-board-of-regents","tag-ut-austin","tag-wallace-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}