Texas A&M: Not the Conservative Campus You Think It Is (Sent 1/24/2011)

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Howdy Ag,



Texas A&M is much more liberal than you ever guessed or imagined. And the political climate will only get worse unless you fight back!

Liberal student groups outnumber conservative groups by 18 to 4.

Just this past Thursday for their annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast, the MSC Woodson Black Awareness Committee used your student fees to help bring a radical, violent, unrepentant communist and terrorist to speak on campus: Angela Davis. Several students who attended the speech have privately expressed their disgust at her remarks. Read about it in the Batt here: http://www.thebatt.com/features/a-king-remembered-a-movement-continued-1.1912936

According to Federal Election Commission data, 85% of A&M employees who donated to a presidential campaign in 2008 contributed to a Democratic candidate.

Four prominent professors at A&M signed an online petition in support of Bill Ayers, the unrepentant far-left Weather Underground terrorist.

Student reports indicate that the English and sociology departments are the most leftist on campus. Sociology professor Joe Feagin was named one of the most dangerous professors in America . Kimberly Brown, an English professor and head of Africana Studies, gave a very inappropriate and ideological speech at Freshman Convocation in 2008.

Here is a sampling of some of the most explicitly liberal courses offered at A&M:

The Sociology Department offers a course called " Alternative Genders"

The English Department offers a course called " G ay and Lesbian Literature ."

." The Economics Department offers a course called " Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy ," which aims to give the "philosophical and economic reasons for redistributing income."

," which aims to give the "philosophical and economic reasons for redistributing income." Africana Studies minors are required to take a " Gateway Course " that teaches "Afrocentrism" and "black feminist theory."

" that teaches "Afrocentrism" and "black feminist theory." The Philosophy Department offered a " Hip Hop Philosophy " course that promotes racial discrimination and undermines traditional values.

A&M also hosts the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute , which seeks to promote Marxist class, race, and sex warfare and leftist ideology generally in scholarship and society.

The Core Curriculum requires all students to fulfill six hours of academic credit for "International and Cultural Diversity." The university offers a major and minor in Women's and Gender Studies that promote abortion, promiscuity, and homosexual behavior. It also offers minors in Africana Studies and Hispanic Studies that promote racial tension.

Texas A&M also has a Department of Multicultural Services, which does "diversity" training and funnels money to leftist student groups and causes. There is also a Women's Resource Center , which is fairly tame overall but perpetuates the feminist "oppression" narrative generally.

The Residence Hall Association is also leftist in orientation, promoting the acceptance and approval of homosexuality, including holding programs such as "Guess Who's Gay" and "Sex in the Dark."

Hard working students pay hundreds of dollars each year in "set-asides" to fund the so-called Aggie Assurance Program which gives free tuition to students whose parents make less than $60,000 per year. Importantly though, these students only have to maintain a 2.5 GPA to stay within the program. This policy rewards mediocrity rather than excellence. In fact, it is likely that many who participate in the program will never finish their degree plan, making it a waste of money.

In summary:

Most of the administrators and faculty, at least in the liberal arts/humanities, are liberal. Their worldview shapes everything they teach and do. And they are tenured or otherwise entrenched in their positions.



Thus most of the courses, textbooks, handouts, assignments, class lectures, etc. lean to the left.



Thus many of the administrative policies are written or applied so as to stifle or eliminate conservative thought and values on campus.



Thus the university heavily funds liberal institutions, student groups, programs, and initiatives on campus while their conservative counterparts get little to nothing, if they exist at all.



Ultimately, Texas A&M is churning out liberal voters and activists who have been indoctrinated with one point of view and have never seriously studied the conservative viewpoint on a variety of issues. And these liberal voters and activists translate into stronger liberal political culture and public policies in Texas and nationwide.



It is up to conservative students like you and me to stop this leftist onslaught in its tracks before Texas A&M ends up politically like t.u., Berkeley, Columbia, or worse! If we don't stop this, no one will.

The Texas Aggie Conservatives (TAC) is the only group on campus that fully recognizes the political reality at A&M and that has the vision, courage, dedication, and know-how to reverse these dire trends:

TAC activism has been noticed by the New York Times , Fox News, the Huffington Post, and numerous state and local media outlets, both print, radio, and TV.



, Fox News, the Huffington Post, and numerous state and local media outlets, both print, radio, and TV. TAC has been recognized by the Leadership Institute, a conservative political training organization in the Washington, D.C. area, as "one of the top conservative activist student groups in the entire country, if not the top group."

Come attend the Texas Aggie Conservatives' informational and first meeting this Tuesday (Jan. 25) at 6:30 pm in Rudder 308 (on the left as you get off the elevators) to learn how you can do your part on campus to fight liberal bias and promote conservatism!

Gig 'em,

Justin Pulliam

979-705-5521

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Chairman

Texas Aggie Conservatives

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