What's with Texas?

[LeahMira]

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Nov. 19, 2003, 12:40AM

Bake sale takes aim at A&M's diversity official

Other groups planning to stage counter-protest

By ARMANDO VILLAFRANCA
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

COLLEGE STATION -- A conservative student group plans to hold a controversial "affirmative action" bake sale where cookie prices will be based on a buyer's gender and race to protest today's arrival of a new diversity leader at Texas A&M University.

At the sale, white males must pay $1 for a cookie while the same kind of cookie will be sold to white females for 75 cents, to Hispanics for 50 cents and to African-Americans for 25 cents.

Matthew Maddox, chairman of the Young Conservatives of Texas A&M, said the bake sale is being held to protest the creation of the new position of vice president of institutional assessment and diversity at A&M in College Station.

James A. Anderson, the former vice provost for undergraduate affairs at North Carolina State University, will assume the new post today.

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Speaking as a white female, if I had the misfortune to be there, I'd be more than happy to give someone else my place. These people sound like a bunch of idiots!!!