Diversity war of words heats up at Texas A&M

Houston Comical ^ | 12/3/03 | RON NISSIMOV

[The_Victor]

Whoooooooop!

[Pikamax]

Let me help out with the reason why Texas A&M has a bad football team this year..

all the best players.. are going to Oklahoma, Texas, and other schools.

[kjam22]

That and a coaching issue.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So much for the free exchange of ideas on the A & M campus.

[BadAndy]

It's great to see conservative students becoming activists on campus and challenging the leftist administrations. The next Newt Gingrich will probably come from this type of organization. Now if we can only get some action from Republican legistators.

[Pedantic_Lady]

Oh please...that is such crap. A&M has had great football teams in years past. The YCT have nothing to do with it.

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[T.Smith]

I have to agree that the Young Conservatives are overreacting. This sort of hyper-sensitivity is emblematic of the left, not of conservatives.

[The_Victor]

Oh please...that is such crap. A&M has had great football teams in years past. The YCT have nothing to do with it.

At this point the discussion has little to do with the football team. The YTC has responded to the university president's and athletic director's verbal assaults.

[.cnI redruM]

I posted on this yesterday and I'm sorry if it offended the famously delicate sensitivities of those matriculating at the renowned Texas Art and Music University. However, it seems AD Byrne still doesn't get it, so I'll type v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y so that even a Coordinator of Diversity can read and understand.

1) If you find yourselves losing football games 77-0, there's a bit more going on with your program than just a diversity problem. It requires more than 1 or 2 highly teed-off NAACP pass rushers to destroy your squad 77-0.

2) Losing 77-0 does seem to have a disparate impact on Dennis Franchione's recruiting efforts. Perhaps even his prospects of future, lucrative employment in the coaching profession. If AD Byrne, who gave away the farm, located somewhere in the vacinity of Bryan, Texas, for Franchione's 'services' as Head 'Coach', would like to stop receiving informative feedback from the alumni football booster club, he needs a scapegoat. Rapidly.

3) In fairness to the OU football team, they were also denied equal opportunity in The Big 10. Other conferences offered their champions the opportunity to overcome difficult competition and feel a sense of tremendous accomplishment and pride. With a 77-0 outcome, the poor, downtrodden Sooners were denied that opportunity. The level of competition they received from AD Byrne's athletic program was truly separate and very unequal.

4) Out of the goodness of their heart's, the OU fans suggested something to the UT Longhorns during a similar 65-13 unfair denial of equal gridiron competition. They held up a sign saying 'Texas should consider touch football.' A&M defenders would need to catch the OU receivers and running backs first, but at least then, they could keep their eyes on the prize. An elusive name, on the back of a jersey, trucking toward the end zone, to make the score 83-0.

[The_Victor]

Texas Art and Music University

LOL!

[Rebelbase]

There is a "Our school cannot compete without black athletes" inference in the coach's and Univ. president's comments that is far more racist in its depth than is the protest against the inequality of affirmiative action by the young conservatives.

[writmeister]

Plus, the whiny Aggies weren't so sympathetic after they demolished hapless Baylor 73-10 the previous week.

Guy Morriss (the new coach at Baylor) was the first to defend Oklahoma's romp over A&M.

[freedomcrusader]

"The Texas A&M Bake Sale plays right into the hands of those who recruit against us, in both athletics and in the general student population," wrote Byrne...

This statement is shockingly racist, directly implying that minorities are superior athletes. As the article almost pointed out, Jimmy the Greek was fired for saying the same thing outright.

[Lancey Howard]

Have a diversity bake sale every month. Advertise it in the student paper.
Each and every month.

[Redbob]

"The next Newt Gingrich will probably come from this type of organization."

Can't we have higher hopes than that?

Couldn't we hope for someone with a little more moral fiber and intestinal fortitude than Mr. Gingrich?

[longtermmemmory]

"I want the issue (of diversity) discussed in a respectful way," said Gates, who plans to hold an open forum this evening to unveil A&M's plans to incorporate race as an admissions factor in light of last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing racial preferences in admissions and scholarships.

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Translation: I want the issue discussing in a mannter which silences the conservative view or at the minimum only discussed the conservative view as a perspective to be ridiculed and discarded. This is in anticipation of the new Texas A&M quota system.




Universtity digrees are becoming more and more worthless.

[longtermmemmory]

digrees=degrees

[KeyWest]

Gates has frequently stated since his hiring in 2002 that he would make diversity a top priority.

He was hired and the football program tanked. That is cause and effect compared to a bake sale.

[Theodore R.]

Wasn't this Gates the CIA director (or some high ranking post) in the first Bush administration?