Texas A&M · 30 November 2003
There is nothing better than a moment of unintended candor. After getting demolished yet again by the Univ. of Texas on the football field, Texas A&M's Athletic Director blamed the Young Conservatives of Texas' recent campus activism against racial preferences for the football program's woes. (see below summary of his comments by YCT Communications Director Mark McCaig)
-Marc Levin, General Counsel for the Young Conservatives of Texas
Now, we see the emperor has no clothes. The rhetoric supporting diversity and admissions double-standards is motivated by a crass desire to encourage more top football players to come to A&M. The idea is if, racial preferences are not used to get enough minorities in the student body as a whole, top athletic recruits who are minorities won't come. I am sure this is a motivation for adopting racial preferences and quotas at other schools as well, although it is left unstated and is widely overlooked by the media.
Of course, the A&M Athletic Director ignores the fact the current UT and A&M teams were recruited and admitted while Hopwood was in effect at both schools.
While the College Station area may not have many minorities, neither does Norman, OK, which is hardly a multicultural melting pot, yet Oklahoma has obviously recruited the best football players in the country, many of whom are black. A&M's athletic leadership is just using the mostly white demographics of College Station and YCT's activism for equal treatment without regard to race in admissions as excuses for its ineptitude.
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