[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.

[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.

[Flux Capacitor]

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-Dan

[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.

[.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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[LiteKeeper]

Aggie Conservatives get it right!

[DrewsDad]

In case you missed YCT's clever response:

November 30, 2003

Dear Mr. Byrne:

The statewide organization of the Young Conservatives of Texas is contacting you in regard to your ?Wednesday Weekly? of November 26, 2003, in which you suggest that the Texas A&M chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas (A&M YCT), ?plays into the hands of those who recruit against? Texas A&M with respect to athletics and the general student population.

With all due respect, we resent your shameless and feeble attempt to shift responsibility for Texas A&M?s lackluster athletic season from yourself to A&M YCT. At the University of Texas at Austin, our chapter there held a similar bake sale and has been at least as active as the Texas A&M chapter over the last few years. Interestingly, the University of Texas athletic programs continue to excel.

Mr. Byrne, we find it ironic that you are unable to appreciate the importance of YCT's activism for equal rights given that the field of athletics in which you are ostensibly an expert provides a textbook example of the benefits that come from making decisions based entirely on merit and without regard to race. Whether it is Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe, Jackie Robinson, Dat Nguyen, Tom Flores, or Yao Ming, we have seen that racial minorities do not need special treatment to excel in sports, but simply a fair shot to compete on an even playing field. The same applies to academics.

While some of the most high profile college sports have racial demographics that do not mirror the population, we trust you would agree that the "underrepresentation" of whites, Hispanics, Asians, and other groups in sports such as football and basketball and the corresponding "overrepresentation" of blacks is solely due to merit-based criteria, not racial discrimination. If race was used as a factor in the composition of sports teams, clearly the quality of play would suffer, in addition to the unfairness that would be visited upon those athletes discriminated against on account of their skin color.

Mr. Byrne, if A&M YCT stops hosting bake sales to protest racial preferential university policies, your athletic program will not consequently improve. The only effect would be that free speech would be suppressed. However, if you will stop focusing time and effort on a political organization and an activity that you know little about and start spending more time doing your job of building A&M athletics, then they may improve.

Sincerely,

David C. Rushing
State Chairman, Young Conservatives of Texas
Texas A&M University, Class of 2002

Christopher M. Allen
State Chairman Emeritus
George Bush School of Government, Class of 2004

Matthew J. Griffing, Esq.
Executive Director

Marc Levin, Esq.
General Counsel

Steven E. Watson
Vice Chairman for Finance

Randy Samuelson
Vice Chairman for Legislative Affairs

Mark McCaig
Vice Chairman for Communications
Texas A&M University, Class of 2005

Nayeem Mohammed
Vice Chairman for Internal Affairs

Jon Gimble
Vice Chairman for Special Events

Sarah Davis
Secretary
Texas A&M, Class of 2004

Matthew Maddox
Chairman, A&M YCT
Class of 2004

[Servant of the 9]

So nice to see these students attempting to make Gates career the living hell his politics have earned him.

So9