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“Welcome. This portal responds to the immediate Civil Rights challenge posed by Texas

A&M’s decision to suspend affirmative action in admissions.”

For complete text of Dec.

2003 page header, see “Read More” below: Dec. 2003

“Interposition and

Nullification” at A&M

Welcome. This portal responds to the immediate Civil Rights

challenge posed by Texas A&M’s decision to suspend affirmative action in

admissions.

Please feel free to add your comments to the stories below. No registration

required for that. Registration to post other forms of content, including “Forum” messages, is free,

quick, and secure.

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occasional bulletins.

Note: The Texas Civil Rights Review began collecting links and

resources about institutionalized racism during a 1997 federal review of civil rights in state higher

education programs.

The team determined that vestiges of segregation still existed. This

places Texas in a special category of civil rights responsibility.

See essential

materials on the history of civil rights in Texas higher education at “Sections” (from the menu to

your upper left).

Thanks for your interest.
Greg Moses
Site

Editor
gmosesx@prodigy.net

Back to my point. If you want an admissions process based merely on individual merit then

you can’t utilize a students lineage in the process. I say we maintain alumni legacy and race in our

admission practices at N.C. State. If not, well, you’ll be seeing a lot more white on campus.

[TechnicianOnline, NC-State, “Seeing white:
Legacy admissions are common at universities,” Andrew

Payne looks at its relation to campus diversity, Jan. 15, 2004]. On a side note, former N.C. State

vice provost James Anderson became Texas A&M’s first vice president of diversity. Texas A&M is a

predominately white male campus with little racial, ethnic and gender diversity. The university’s

undergraduate enrollment is 82 percent white, 9 percent Hispanic, 2 percent African-American and 3

percent Asian-American. The position was created by Texas A&M president Robert Gates to increase

minority enrollment and enhance the university’s image. In response to the new position, a

conservative student group sold cookies and other items at their “affirmative action bake sale” where

prices where based on the buyer’s skin color.[see citation

above]

…were these four lousy sheets of paper. Go to

our Open Records pages to see what complete supporting materials look like when you’re about to make

civil rights history in Texas.

And yes, we double-

checked…

If

you’re browsing our site on Jan. 29, 2004, please click into the Texas Higher Education Coordinating

Board’s quarterly meeting, via streaming

video:

http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/about/boardmeeting.htm