Cruz’s name gave him minority status in the BCS system. Absolutely.
Unofficially, most schools had two separate codes of conduct: the official one for those considered of the Caucasian Persuasion and the other lenient policy which was officially accepted in 2013.
Three sets of rules: the official one, the one for "protected classes", and a zero-tolerance one for white males (necessary in order to ensure that the statistic of minority offenses is not greater than the statistic for whites).