Several minority lawmakers on Monday urged Texas A&M University officials to reverse their decision to not consider race in admitting students, but university President Robert Gates told them in a private meeting he opposes using race as a factor.
Source:dallasnews.com
Texas A&M’s brand new Vice President for Diversity, James Anderson, was introduced to a full house audience Nov. 20 (2003), two weeeks before university President Robert Gates announced that affirmative action would be suspended.
Is this what we now call two weeks notice?..
Interesting to note that the new VP was introduced on the occasion of the “3rd Annual” Diversity Symposium in 2003.
According to the student newspaper, one panelist remarked that Anderson, “hasn’t even been here (A&M) for 48 hours and has already been accused of many things.” In reply to which, Anderson was reported to have “laughed in agreement.”
Link to source:
http://www.thebatt.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/565269.html
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 was posted at http://www.townhall.com
ARCHIVE: 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.
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.
Texas Civil Rights Review 