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Harvey

Kronberg notes that several headlines in Texas (and apparently on television, too) announced the death

of Robin Hood after yesterday’s ruling. So while media outside the state ignored the story, media in

Texas misrepresented it. But it was not difficult to see this one coming. Most pre-ruling reports

about the trial lumped all the plaintiffs together into an anti-Robin Hood pack, without distinguishing

between property-rich plaintiffs and property-poor intervenors. “It’s broke,” was the usual depth

of analysis given to the school funding crisis. Then, after weeks of mostly empty press galleries, it

was a perfect storm of media yesterday. Should I mention the name of the television reporter who

actually closed his eyes and seemed to fall dead asleep behind the cameras? Naw, that would be too

cruel.

‘Defeat ignorance, support diversity’
Hundreds of students, faculty and

staff
attend rally to promote diversity
By Anthony Woolstrum
Published: Thursday,

February 19, 2004
—–Caption—–
Michael Jackson (left), class of 1988, and Thomas

Spellman, class of 1986, hold hands in front of the Academic Building in support of the march Wednesday

afternoon. The march through campus was organized by the members of the Faculty Committed to an

Inclusive Campus and included a rally at Rudder Fountain. (Photo by John C. Livas / The

Battalion) “Aggies are diverse; we are diverse.”

This statement and others were

chanted Wednesday afternoon as hundreds of Texas A&M faculty, staff, students and members of the Bryan

-College Station community gathered for a rally sponsored by the Faculty Committed to an Inclusive

Campus (FCIC) to promote diversity on campus.

“We have to make sure that we represent

Texas A&M to the outside community the way we want to be represented,” said James Anderson, vice

president for diversity.

Houston IndyMedia

We got a

very brief report today on developments in the fight to keep Hubert Vo in the Texas Legislature. The

Vo camp received a list on Tuesday of alleged “illegal voters” which they are now reviewing, one name

at a time.

“We got the list and we’re dismissing a lot of the names so far,” says our

source. “Now it’s the old accounting thing. You look at a name, check it out and say ‘no good, no

good,’ or ‘maybe there is something here.’ It’s taking longer than we

expected.”

About the conference call today between the disputing parties, our source

says only that, “it went fine.” We’ll ask for another update Thursday.

Democrat

Hubert Vo won a close election to the Texas House of Representatives
and is now fighting a

challenge that is scheduled for hearings before the legislature
early next year.-

gm

CHART BELOW
Enrollment Ratios 2000-2004
for Texas A&M University
by

Race/Ethnicity & Gender
See “Read More”

Note: Between 1994 and 1998, the ratio of:

–Black first time students fell steadily from 4.8% to 2.7%

–Hispanic first-time students

peaked at 14.7% then fell to 9.1%

–White first-time students increased steadily from 76.3% to

82.0%

Source: OPIR/ip/Profile98(p.8)

Okay maybe we’d like to see a second thing: systematic reporting of enrollment

ratios; without ratios, the raw numbers have little civil rights significance.–gm
[2004 numbers

updated Dec.]