Posted on 02/14/2005 10:35:48 PM PST by AggieCPA
The most recent controversy over homosexuality involves some students who do not approve of others peacefully gathering as part of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Aggies (GLBTA) association. To show their disgust, some students have torn down fliers promoting GLBTA and others have covered them up with other fliers.
Connie Donnellan, a freshman political science major, said that in one instance, within 30 seconds of posting a GLBTA flier, a girl read it, proclaimed her disgust and offense at a gay-friendly group and ripped it off. Another time, she witnessed a group of male students around a kiosk looking at the fliers. She heard one say, "What the hell? Gay?" and covered it up with one of his own.
The infamous 2003 protest of Coming Out Week by the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) is a clear example of this. In 2003, many members of YCT drove around campus with signs taped to their cars with slogans such as, "Texas A&M: Where guys like girls and girls like guys." Another common expression is, "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve."
The other perspective is that gays are a minority that most people do not like stuck in their faces. The majority does not want to hear about gays, see them, or see posters on their campuses. This wave of "in your face" attitude fostered by the radical leftist activists, is going to hurt gays in the long run. If they would just mind their own business, they would do more for their "cause".
A&M is the most politically incorrect campus I've ever seen. Thank God!
In 1928, the first known photograph was made of the Bonfire. 
In 1943, the first all-log Bonfire was built. It stood 25 feet high.
Texas Aggie Bonfire draws crowds in excess of 50,000 to the Polo Fields on the northeast corner of the A&M campus. 
Thats nothing compared to what happens to conservatives and christians on liberal campi
That said, the student body is mostly conservative but the ones who scream the loudest is the homosexual lobby. They're still hacked off that the Young Conservatives of Texas have stood up to their agenda. The administration hates the YCT and seriously pushes the homosexual lobby. (Several years ago, some unknown people spread some flyers around campus containing some very bigoted comments about homosexuals. The homosexual lobby openly blamed the YCT and the administration basically did the same but couldn't prove it. I bet it was some of the homosexual lobby who spread the flyers just to cause trouble.)
Anyway, the administration, faculty, and journalism department, which publishes the Batt but will soon be eliminated from the Dept. of Liberal Arts, are about as far left as one would find on 90% of college campuses.
Someone did that here at U.T. last year, posting bigoted fliers around campus. Only they printed YCT on the fliers. It was OBVIOUSLY not the YCT, but despite the YCT fighting the accusations, the newspapers ignored that and just went ahead and reported the story as if the YCT had done it, case closed. That pissed me off a bit.
The young, Aggie future lawyers are ready to defend the YCT in this stance...or at leat this young Aggie future lawyer is...
Who needs a physical fishwrap anymore? There are tons of conservative former students who could bankroll and altertnative the the Battallion. If it were distributed solely via the internet, there's no way someone could destroy printed copies the way lefitst destroy conservative papers on other campuses. An internet only publication could routinely scoop the Batt.
First, I love A&M and all it stands for. There are lots of Aggies in this family and, yes, I can sing Hullaballoo.
That said, it doesn't hurt if the Batt prints editorials that don't agree with established campus thinking. Listening to or reading other ideas and opinions clarifies one's own beliefs and makes them stronger. The prevailing philosophy on campus, both student and faculty, is overwhelmingly conservative and rational. If the Batt challenges thought and provokes protest occasionally, it's probably good both for campus and for intellectual discourse. There is a world off campus. After all, what we really need are not more conservatives or liberals, but more REASONABLES, people equipped to intelligently debate issues, understand the other guy's point, but get done what needs to be done. I think our current president is one of those.
As for Bonfire -- it's still burning. Smaller, off-campus, but the flame hasn't gone out. The university is never going to be able to sponsor it again for liability reasons, but there are plenty of Old Ags who can keep the flame lit nearby if they want to.
I agree about the Batt staff being big libs, but what I love is the way the students tear them to shreds in their letters.
I remember Bonfire 98 when Dan Campbell said he was just glad he went to a school where men liked women and women liked men. The libs had a fit but were effectively smacked down.
Thank God is right. I was in a business class several years ago when the instructor said something about the Arts. She was met with stone cold silence. LOL
She said "God, you guys are so conservative."
Damn straight(no pun intended)!
Glad Aggieland hasn't changed that much since 1980. We fought like hell to keep our student fees from going to the queers, but Administration shoved it down our throats. The Batt was a worthless rag back then too. I always thought they were teasips undercover.
Gig 'em
WW
TAMU class of '83
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