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  • Students Protest Diversity Hire

    The Texas A&M Chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas held an affirmative action bake

    sale, “to protest the creation of a new position addressing diversity at Texas A&M University,”

    reports a conservative news website, townhall.com (see link info below).

    The

    report says a similar initiative by YCT’s at Southern Methodist University was “shut down” by the

    administration…. A&M YCT student Rebecca Falkowski is quoted as follows: “During our pledge drive,

    we will be seeking out ‘non-underrepresented-minority’ students and faculty supportive of affirmative

    action who wish to express, in writing, their willingness to give up their spot at Texas A&M to be

    replaced by a member of a racial class who would be more valued by the vice president of diversity,”

    Falkowski said.

    But I wonder if Falkowski realizes that women are considered

    a protected class under affirmative action practices?

    Again, according to

    the report, students seemed to be alleging that an incoming vice president of diversity would be

    supporting “discrimination” (via affirmative action?) and opposing conservative principles.

    The report may be found at the following link:

    http://www.townhall.com

    /news/politics/200311

    /CUL20031119b.shtml

  • Press Release on A&M Regents Decision Posted

    The official press release announcing the decision by Texas A&M regents to suspend

    affirmative action has been posted here. Please follow the link from “Sections” at the Modules menu

    to your upper left.

  • Interposition and Nullification at A&M

    The recent announcement by Texas A&M University President Robert Gates on the suspension of

    affirmative action places the College Station, Texas campus once again at the center of leadership for

    Republican-style racism.

    Texas A&M University is the home of the George Bush

    presidential library and hosts a student body that is among the most conservative in the

    world.

    On Dec. 3 (2003) Gates released a statement declaring that Texas A&M would no

    longer pursue affirmative action… The decision is dismaying but hardly shocking, because the Texas

    A&M University System has been historically reluctant to produce excellence in anti-racist leadership

    skills.

    Please see a collection of links and resources collected at the Texas Civil

    Rights Review:
    http://pages.prodigy.net/gmoses/tcrr/index.htm

    The evidence is

    consistent and weighty in support of the proposition that “interposition and nullification” is the

    living soul of the “Aggie Miracle.”

    The words “interposition and nullification” are

    taken from the 1963 “I Have a Dream Speech” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Gates Statement Posted

    The first

    item to be posted at the “Sections” module is the Dec. 3, 2003 statement by Texas A&M president

    Robert Gates rationalizing the decision to drop affirmative action. To view the statement please

    follow links from the “Sections” item in the Modules menu at your upper

    left.